Harrisburg to Take Up Transportation Funding Issue
Governor Ed Rendell wants a special legislative session on Pennsylvania's transportation funding problems to begin next week.
Rendell's office says the governor is expected to address a joint session of the House and Senate after each chamber approves a resolution.
Rendell's call for the session is being prompted by the federal government's recent rejection of Pennsylvania's application to turn Interstate 80 into a toll highway.
The rejection eliminated a key source of money to help address a backlog of highway, bridge and mass transit projects across the state.
The Department of Transportation says the $472 million expected from the tolls next year would have been part of $2.9 billion in highway and bridge improvements and $1.6 billion in state and federal support for mass transit.