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New Hampshire DOT official: similar cost pressures; turnpike revenue covers operations but not new capital
Summary
New Hampshire’s transportation commissioner told Vermont's Senate committee that NH faces flat highway revenue and rising costs, uses a statutory municipal block grant (12% of gas tax and fees) to aid towns, and that turnpike tolls currently cover debt and operations but cannot support major new capital without a toll increase.
A visiting official identified in the record as Commissioner Cass (New Hampshire Department of Transportation) told the committee that New Hampshire faces the same combination of flat state receipts and sharply higher construction and labor costs as Vermont.
Commissioner Cass described NH’s funding mix: federal aid (roughly 38% of program spending), a state highway fund (about 31% that includes gas tax…
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