The turnpike commission’s chief executive, Mark Compton, also said in the statement that the decision didn’t eliminate the state’s problems funding transportation, it merely delayed a coming reckoning. Pennsylvania turned to turnpike tolls as a way to fund public transportation in a law passed in 2007, Act 44. That law was written with the intention that I-80 would be tolled, a plan that was shot down by federal authorities in 2010. Since then, the Turnpike Authority has had to borrow money to make the public transportation payments, which has contributed $6 billion to its debt.