Wyoming Senate favors tolling on Interstate 80 The Wyoming Senate has voted 18 -12 to advance a bill that would give the Wyoming Transportation Commission the authority to charge highway users to travel on Interstate 80. The bill must now be considered by the Wyoming House. With tolling authority, the Wyoming Department of Transportation would be able to make a formal request to the Federal Highway Administration to set up toll booths on I-80. However, the state must also come up with $350,000 to submit the plan to the feds. That prompted this exchange during the debate on the bill: “You have to ask yourself whether we need to pay $350,000 to ask the feds if we can do this,” said Senator Stan Cooper. “Why can’t we just ask the feds?” “Everything costs money these days,” responded Senator Michael Von Flatern. “That’s the only way we’ll get the answers.”               return