A UPS truck passes under an offline tolling granary on Interstate 195 in Providence in March 2025. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
State transportation officials expect to resume tolling tractor-trailers to help fund repairs to Rhode Island’s highways and bridges in early 2027 — more than two years after getting the OK from a federal court to reactivate the gantries.
The delay is necessary because the entire system needs to be replaced, the state’s interim transportation chief told the House Committee on Finance’s Subcommittee on Environment and Transportation during his department’s yearly budget hearing Tuesday evening…