Meeting set Monday on I-80 toll proposal

Meeting set Monday on I-80 toll proposal

GROVE CITY, Pa. — Monday night’s meeting to gauge public support of the plan to place tolls on Interstate 80 is nothing more than a sham, says one federal lawmaker.

“The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is simply going through the motions. They should have done these hearings before the bill was passed,” said U.S. Rep. Phil English of Erie, R-3rd.

The public has been invited to attend a public information session from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday night at Grove City College, the last of a series of meetings the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has held across the state to explain plans for placing tolls on the 311-mile stretch that spans across the state.

“This is an attempt to have little rallies to stir up support. I think the bureaucrats in Harrisburg have discovered they have awakened a sleeping lion,” English said of the opposition.

The meeting will be at the college’s J. Howard Pew Fine Arts Building, 100 Campus Drive.

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