The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission says it recently made a series of changes to allow more “competition and transparency” in awarding lucrative contracts for bond work, legal services, investment advice, financial consulting and other professional services. But that didn’t stop state Rep. Mike Vereb, R-Montgomery, from introducing a bill yesterday to eliminate the commission and turn its operation of the statewide toll road over to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. He cited the turnpike’s lack of competition in the past in awarding publicly funded consulting contracts and other work, and charges that well-connected lawyers and financial firms, especially from Philadelphia, got turnpike work through their political connections as justification to eliminate the commission and transfer its 2,000-member union work force to PennDOT.
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