Politics & Government
Republicans Question 422 Toll Plans
Tredyffrin's Warren Kampf is among the GOP State House members who represent areas along the 422 corridor and who held a news conference Thursday.
State House Republicans are raising questions about a report presented in Harrisburg on Monday on a proposal to turn the heavily travelled and often heavily congested southern section of U.S. 422 into a toll road.
At a presentation Monday, Democrat Joseph Hoeffel, a Montgomery County Commissioner who is also the head of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, helped present the proposal to the Governor's Transportation Funding Commission.
Thursday's news conference was held at the 422 Business Center in Oaks, adjacent to the expressway. State Represantatives. Warren Kampf (R-Chester/Montgomery), David Maloney (R-Berks), Marcy Toepel (R-Montgomery) and Mike Vereb (R-Montgomery) all spoke out against what Vereb called the "Hoeffel Tolling Plan."
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The plan would impose a $2.65 one-way toll on the roadway from Route 202 in Chesterbrook to Douglassville.
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