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Published: June 16, 2009 05:51 pm    print this story  

Delegate wants $7 million from Dunbar bridge for turnpike

By Mannix Porterfield
Register-Herald Reporter

CHARLESTON ’ Almost half of a proposed $15 million payment to a contractor for a Dunbar bridge along Interstate 64 would go instead to the West Virginia Turnpike if an amendment by Delegate Linda Sumner holds up.

Sumner wants to dedicate $7 million of the appropriation to finance both road and bridge repairs along the 88-mile toll road.

Hoping to forestall a pending 60 percent toll increase on the turnpike, Sumner said Tuesday she has attracted bipartisan support for her amendment.

’The turnpike is an 88-mile interstate highway which opened in 1954 and is funded solely from tolls,’ she said.

Sumner’s amendment is up for a vote today in the House of Delegates when the Dunbar bridge payment is at stake. ...



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