Rep. Garballey: NH/Mass. I-93 Border Toll will be Considered to Fund Transit

“Open road tolling is a possibility, on the New Hampshire border, that Governor Patrick and the (MBTA) caucus is looking at,” Rep. Sean Garballey, D-Arlington/Medford, said Tuesday.

The debate over placing a toll near the New Hampshire border on I-93 may return in 2012 as an option to shore up transit funding shortfalls in Massachusetts, according to one state representative. “Open road tolling is a possibility, on the New Hampshire border, that Governor Patrick and the (MBTA) caucus is looking at,”  Rep. Sean Garballey, D-Arlington/Medford, said Tuesday. Garballey, the chairman of the legislature’s MBTA caucus, was on hand at Medford City Hall with two other state representatives and a state senator Tuesday for an informational meeting a on the state of the MBTA. The transit authority faces a projected $161 million budget shortfall in 2013. “We’re really looking at any solution possible,” Garballey said. “Everything …

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