Truck tolls debate continues in House public comment
By Alana Cerrone
@Alana_Cerrone
Governor Raimondo’s truck tolls proposal heads to round two of a heated debate.
After a 7-hour long session Wednesday night, the House is set to hear more public comment Thursday.
The room was packed for the House Finance Committee’s meeting which began at 2 p.m. with a Q & A session about the Governor’s RhodeWorks plan, which would use truck tolls to help repair Rhode Island’s crumbling bridges.
House Fiscal Advisor Sharon Reynolds Ferland took questions at the beginning of the meeting, one in particular regarding the maximum truck drivers will actually have to pay.
"Well there’s two maximums,” Ferland says, “…one is forty dollars maximum in a 24-hour period. Second is if you travel in one direction along the 95 corridor – if you come in through Connecticut and go out along 295 in Massachusetts – you could get fifty cents more than that."
Public testimony will continue at the rise of the Senate Thursday evening.
Speaker Nicholas Mattiello told ABC6 News this bill could make it to the House floor for a vote as early as next Thursday.
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