Missouri Lawmakers React to Proposal to put Toll Roads on Interstate 70
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Missouri Lawmakers React to Proposal to put Toll Roads on Interstate 70

Date: November 10, 2011
By: Matt Evans
State Capitol Bureau

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The Missouri Department of Transportation is trying to make one of the states major highways into a toll road and legislation will be introduced in January.
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Wrap: The Republican House Floor Leader Tim Jones isn't ruling out the possibility of making I-70 a toll road.

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Description: "For transportation, we have a major issue in the state, and we're going to have to consider all potential solutions at this point in time."

But another member of House leadership Speaker Pro Tem Shane Schoeller says there's no way.

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Description: "I'm opposed to toll roads for our state. I think that that's the wrong direction. If we were going to make that decision it would have been made years ago."

The department of transportation introduced it to improve the interstate and possibly add a lane in each direction.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Matt Evans.