I-95 collapse spotlights issues with road and bridge funding

Numerous factors are complicating the road ahead for the state’s gas tax.
 
 City & State Pennsylvania
 By HARRISON CANN
 JUNE 12, 2023
 
 Pennsylvania has a gas problem.
 As consumers have digested shifting gas prices throughout the pandemic – and gotten increasingly sick of paying rising prices amid inflation – Pennsylvania residents have been feeling the pain at the pump a bit more than other Americans.
 Coming in at roughly 60 cents per gallon, the commonwealth’s gas tax is the second-highest in the nation, trailing only California. Despite that distinction, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s road and bridge funding sources are alarmingly close to running on empty.
 With a massive influx of federal infrastructure funding coming to the commonwealth, rising construction costs and an increasingly unpopular gas tax, state and transportation officials are gauging gas tax alternatives to put the state and its aging roadways on stronger short- and long-term financial footing.

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