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MO Senate Unlikely to Pass I-70 Toll Road in 2012
The trucking and gas station industries oppose the toll road, but the state said the project could create thousands of jobs.
A Senate bill that would have generated money for repairs to a 200-mile stretch of I-70 by charging tolls will probably be stuck in committee when the Senate adjourns, the Post-Dispatch reported Monday.
State Sen. Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, vice chairman of the committee and a former highway commissioner, introduced the bill.
The Wentzville Patch asked its readers back in November of 2011 about their . A whopping 81 percent of respondents in our poll said that they would find alternate routes if the tollway became a reality.
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KMOX reported in January that expanding I-70 to create the toll road could cost between $2-4 billion dollars. The cost would include making three lanes in each direction. The upper end projections include a fourth, trucks only lane in both directions.
Patch Blogger Brian Hook talked about that would allow a private-sector company to finance the construction and management of the toll road.
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In February, we asked . Lambi said at the time that he was fine with it—as long as the tolls began in Foristell and not in .
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