The Senate-approved $1 trillion infrastructure bill would create a voluntary pilot program aimed at studying per-mile user fees for motor vehicles to fund the Highway Trust Fund. The bill does not include a "driving tax," as some social media posts misleadingly claim.
A recent email from our state senator, Jake Corman, notified me that today, June 1, is the last day for us to get in our comments on funding options that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation wants to use to fill our transportation funding gap. One of those funding options already received the necessary board approval back in November 2020, during the dark days of the pandemic.
The approval was to toll nine bridges on interstate highways around the state. Six of those will directly affect Happy Valley residents as we try to drive east, west or south from here (a map and details of the proposed toll bridges are on this webpage).