As Americans ease up on gas, the federal government might be turning to tolls to help pay for the country’s 1.6 trillion-dollar transportation infrastructure problems.
Americans are easing up on the gas as the price of gasoline remains high. It means shrinking funds in federal highway coffers. One of the ways Congress is considering raising the 1.6 trillion dollars needed to repair the nation’s transportation infrastructure is through tolls on federal roads. Host Bruce Gellerman speaks with the Wall Street Journal’s transportation reporter, Christopher Conkey.