Via Combest, there are numerous articles today about the grant from the US Dept. of Transportation to MoDOT, funding an study of new truck-only lanes on I-70. This is a terrific idea. I hope they give strong consideration to tolling those truck-only lanes, and allowing additional trailer rigs within them, in order to make tolls fair to the truck companies. Here is the original press release. The recent plan to hire a company to repair and maintain 802 bridges was a great initial step in realistically dealing with our transportation and infrastructure needs in Missouri. How we go about improving I-70 and I-44 is the next big question. The use of tolls (through public-private partnerships, which are constitutional) MUST be strongly considered as the best way to pay for these improvements.
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David Stokes
David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.
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