Chairman Bill Shuster’s Road Trip Across Pennsylvania

America’s First Superhighway.

Connecting communities for 75 years.

Driving towards tomorrow.

Those are some of the messages on signs that Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, might have seen last week as he hosted legislators and transportation officials on a two-day road trip across his home state.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is celebrating its 75^th anniversary this year. We hope that some in the group of six Republican committee members and five state transportation secretaries noticed the phenomenal success, legacy and not to mention safe, reliable and well maintained 554 miles of the first superhighway in America, the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Pennsylvania “certainly has some significant infrastructure needs,” Shuster told Politico. The road trip was part of an effort to foster “broader discussions about how other regions of the country are looking at and thinking about addressing these same critical issues. The more voices and perspectives we can hear, the more likely we are to come up with the best solutions.”

Tolling is one proven funding solution, with a successful history of 75 years in Pennsylvania.

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