Reverend Pinion's Toll Road Lobbyist Girlfriend is tickled PINK
By the way Rev. Pinion, where are the hundreds of millions of dollars Sundquist and Bredesen took from the Highway Fund?
The state House has voted to remove limits on how many toll roads or bridges could be built in Tennessee.
The state House has voted to remove limits on how many toll roads or bridges could be built in Tennessee.
House Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion, a Union City Democrat, says the measure is necessary to jump-start infrastructure projects amid dwindling federal road money.
Tennessee transportation officials were notified last week that they will need to subtract another $66 million from promised federal money for road work.
Nancy Pellosi's Democrat controlled congress has cut nearly a quarter-billion dollars from Tennessee's expected road money since 2005.
The companion bill is scheduled to be considered in the Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
The Legislature last year created a pilot program that allowed for one toll road and one toll bridge project.
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