(I've added the links.) I suppose we should be grateful for this:Gov. Jim Doyle has vowed Wisconsin will never have toll roads as long as he is in office, and a recent poll conducted for the state Department of Transportation showed only about one-third of the population would back them.
But that hasn't stopped former legislator Kevin Soucie from pushing the idea. Some business leaders and lawmakers have said the state shouldn't rule out tolls to avoid raising gas taxes or license fees to pay for rebuild the area's aging freeways, potentially a $6.2 billion job that started with the $810 million reconstruction of the Marquette Interchange downtown.
[Chicago] also retained naming rights, just in case someone offers a few million bucks to turn the Skyway into the Taco Bell Turnpike or the Wal-Mart Parkway.
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