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Spending
Tim Darragh of the Allentown Morning Call has a two-day series on the financial history of Pennsylvania's Turnpike, which in seeking a 44-percent increase in tolls this summer is continuing a nearly two-decade-long spending binge that has left the agency with billions of dollars of debt, a doubling of tolls and the prospect of more to come. Part of the problem is that decisions were made easy by a closed loop of Turnpike officials, who have no direct accountability to taxpayers,
· and legislators, who ordered the highway system's expansion but have no budgetary authority over the Turnpike [Link Poached from Scoop]
· See Also Black hole" expressway project
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