Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration has started building a toll road across the northern end of the state from Ohio to Illinois, and has won Federal Government pledges to build an Indiana port on Lake Michigan (a longtime Indiana dream). Under the new corrections department, the administration of state institutions has improved materially. Craig has proposed (and will probably get legislative approval for) higher pay for teachers and more funds for schoolrooms. His most spectacular progress, attested to even by some of his foes, has been in the fields of highway safety and mental health...
...state jobs are concerned, the Toll Road Commission, with only 93 employees, has comparatively little to offer. But there are other possibilities of succulent plums. A contractor who wins an award to build a section of the road probably will, in due time, get a call from Executive Director Albert J. Wedeking of the Toll Road Commission. After passing the time of day, Wedeking will say that "a good friend of mine" would like to come over. When the good friend arrives, he politely asks whether the contractor would like to make a contribution to the Republican Party (Craig division...
Another vein of patronage runs through the contractors' performance bonds (guaranteeing satisfactory work on public projects). To be sure that the state has recourse in its own courts, the bonding company must have an agent who lives in Indiana. Most knowing contractors will ask the Toll Road Commission for advice on selecting the agent. Says Director Wedeking with Indiana frankness "If they ask our advice, we give it-and if somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance...
...Texas idea is a new turn in the development of toll turnpikes. Ten years ago, the nation had less than 300 miles of major toll highways. Today there are 1,058 miles in operation, 1,247 under construction, and another 6,232 either ready for construction or proposed. Until now, all have been built by states or municipalities. Of the $2.4 billion of highway bonds floated last year, $2.2 billion were for toll roads. Some have been phenomenally successful. For example, the 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike, opened in 1951, took in $20,756,344 last year, more than double...
...toll road is not the answer, what is the best way to finance U.S. highways? For the most part, the nation's roads are still being built or repaired with revenue from gasoline taxes, license-plate fees and other taxes on motorists and truckers. But in most states the immediate need for roads is greater than the immediate income, and the double-edged question of taxing motorists and building highways regularly touches off pitched battles in state capitals...