Tolls for Rhode Island no easy thing
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Looking for ways to generate huge sums to fix crumbling bridges and highways, state officials are working towards a plan to charge tolls on one or more of the state's highways. However, federal program restrictions and experience elsewhere suggest that they will have a difficult time. First, what officials has described so far seems to fit into only one federal program, one that has only one opening left nationwide. Second, experts in the field say that there is usually extraordinary public resistance to what Rhode Island officials are discussing, charging tolls on existing bridges or highways that don't already have them. Instituting tolls on existing highways without other changes, like adding new lanes, happens so rarely that experts can't think of examples. 
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