Motorists traveling across the state of Pennsylvania on Interstate 80 could pay a $25 tax by the year 2010. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Friday asked the US Department of Transportation for approval to turn the free and paid-for interstate highway into a toll road for the purpose of raising money for mass transit and other public spending projects. This would be the first conversion of a free interstate into a toll road since the interstate highway system was developed fifty years ago.

Once one state does this, the rest will try to do the same. Then there will be no free roads to travel on. Congress is attempting to outlaw this, but the US Department Of Transportation appears to support it.

The USDOT is doing such a good at managing our money. They are giving $354 Million to the City of New York, not to improve infrastructure, but so the city can collect more money from drivers.