The Virginia General Assembly passed a sweeping transportation plan that would cut the state’s retail taxes on diesel and gasoline and replace them with a wholesale tax on fuel distributors, raise the state’s sales tax to help fund transportation projects and curtail plans to toll Interstate 95.
The measure effectively stops a plan by the Virginia Department of Transportation to toll Interstate 95, in an “an overwhelming sign of growing opposition to tolls on existing interstates,” according to American Trucking Associations.
“While not an outright ban on tolling, the Virginia General Assembly has made it clear that they do not support tolling and will not move forward with any plans to toll I-95 south of Fredericksburg,” ATA said in a statement.
State officials submitted a plan to the federal government last August to toll I-95 — the East Coast’s major north-south corridor — a move that was vehemently opposed by the trucking industry.
