Levy Removal on George T. Coleman Span Avoids $5 Million Infrastructure Updates
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One-way tolls are no longer being collected from some 33,000 vehicles daily traveling in Virginia on the George P. Coleman Bridge along Route 17 outside Newport News ahead of a Jan. 1 deadline.
Virginia “has fulfilled its obligation to repay the bond debt for the Coleman Bridge, so it’s time to stop asking Virginians to pay tolls on this facility, and we are doing so five months early,” said state Transportation Secretary W. Sheppard Miller III. “There are extensive costs required to continue tolling, and we believe that the toll money collected would be better off in the hands of taxpayers.”…