UPDATE: The state's all-electronic tolling system may have opened the door for a new Mass. Pike exit.

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State transportation officials will consider the feasibility and cost of adding a new exit along the Massachusetts Turnpike.

In the state budget signed by Gov. Charlie Baker, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation was given funding to study building an exit between Lee and Westfield, NEPR reports.

There's a 30-mile gap between the exits on the westernmost part of the turnpike.

"I personally think this is a game-changer for the hilltowns," Lenox State Representative Smitty Pignatelli told NEPR. "I think it will provide economic activity in a very positive way."