Pols weigh pumping up fuel cost

While Linsky said he hopes to pass the gas tax instead of hiking tolls, Michael Widmer, who served on the Transportation Finance Committee and is of the business-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, said both will be needed to patch the state's crumbling roads and bridges. "I think it was a constructive vote," Widmer said of the Pike board's move to hike taxes to $2 at both Allston and Weston tolls. "But I think the obvious inequity will bring a greater focus on the need for a gas tax."