EBENSBURG - Cambria County Transit Authority is keeping an eye on developments in Harrisburg as Gov. Ed Rendell and state lawmakers wrestle with budget revenue shortfalls in the wake of the federal decision blocking Pennsylvania from collecting tolls on Interstate 80, county Controller Ed Cernic Jr. said Friday.
Cernic, who is a member of the authority and its former chairman, said the transit authority's budget is about $8 million a year, and much of it depends on state as well as federal funds.
This year's state budget includes $472 million in anticipated revenues for PennDOT from I-80 tolls. The Federal Highway Administration turned down the toll plan. The money would have gone to public mass transit as well as for the state's highways and bridges.
Cernic suggested that PennDOT will look at the upkeep of roads and bridges before it turns to funding mass transit during the budget crunch.
"We (the authority)...
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