In order to facilitate vehicular traffic across this Commonwealth, the commission is authorized and empowered to do all of the following:
(1) Convert Interstate 80 to a toll road and maintain and operate it as a toll road.
(2) Construct, reconstruct, widen, expand, extend, maintain and operate Interstate 80 from a point at or near the Ohio border to a point at or near the New Jersey border, together with connecting roads, interchanges, slip ramps, tunnels and bridges.
(3) Issue turnpike revenue bonds, notes or other obligations, payable solely from revenues of the commission, including tolls, or from funds as may be available to the commission for that purpose, to pay the cost of constructing, reconstructing, widening, expanding or extending Interstate 80 or any other costs of Interstate 80 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
(4) Provide quarterly reports and periodic updates regarding significant developments with respect to the conversion of Interstate 80 to the chairman and minority chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the Transportation Committee of the House of Representatives. These reports shall include, at a minimum, the status of outstanding discussions with the United States Department of Transportation regarding Interstate 80, the location and construction of tolling-related equipment for Interstate 80, planned capital improvements for Interstate 80 and other information important to implementation of this section.
(July 18, 2007, P.L.169, No.44, eff. imd.)
2007 Amendment. Act 44 added section 8915.1.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 89 - Pennsylvania Turnpike
Section 8911 - Improvement and extension authorizations
Section 8912 - Subsequent extension authorizations
Section 8913 - Additional subsequent extension authorizations
Section 8914 - Further subsequent authorizations
Section 8914.1 - Security wall pilot project
Section 8915 - Conversion to toll roads
Section 8915.1 - Conversion of Interstate 80
Section 8915.2 - Application to United States Department of Transportation
Section 8915.3 - Lease of Interstate 80; related agreements
Section 8915.4 - Initial payment
Section 8915.5 - Other interstate highways
Section 8915.6 - Deposit and distribution of funds
Section 8915.7 - Impact on associated highways and local roads