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Act 44 was passed by the Pennsylvania legislature in July 2007, establishing for the first time ever an inflation sensitive, long-term funding stream to address Pennsylvania’s transportation funding crisis. Based on traffic and revenue forecasts, the Act provides minimum payments to PennDOT of $83.3 billion over a 50-year period for transportation maintenance and improvements in Pennsylvania by:
- Converting I-80 to a tolled facility,
- Increasing existing Mainline Turnpike Tolls, and
- Issuing Monetization Bonds based on future toll revenues.
The anticipated revenue generated from Act 44 addresses part of the funding identified in the Governor’s Transportation Funding and Reform Commission Report (November 2006). A majority of this funding will be used statewide to repair roads and bridges. Toll money collected on I-80 will be used to reconstruct and improve I-80, and to pay the lease payments in accordance with the / Lease Agreement.
PennDOT’s federal funding portion will remain the same, so that the average $80 million per year currently being spent on I-80 will be available for use on other interstates in the Commonwealth.
Additionally, all of the state’s rural and urban public transit agencies will now receive increased, stable, and performance-driven funding annually. Transit funding is being generated through the monetization of bonds based on Mainline Turnpike (I-76) toll increases. I-80 toll money will not be used for transit as specified in the PTC/PennDOT Lease Agreement.
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