I-70 will remain toll-free for another year

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• The Missouri Legislature isn’t likely to take up the issue of tolls this year.

The drive between St. Louis and Kansas City is going to look the same for at least the next year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a bill to add tolls to Interstate 70 appears destined to languish in the Missouri Senate’s Transportation Committee.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City), introduced the idea earlier in the session to gain approval for installing tolls to help pay for the renovation of 200 miles of I-70.