The state is short about $400 million for transportation projects, so officials are tapping the brakes on Everett Turnpike work between Nashua and Bedford.

Officials are also considering raising tolls.

Moreover, they were forced to go back to the drawing board for extending Interstate 93 through Bow and Concord and improving the I-293 exits in Manchester.

Tobey Reynolds, assistant director of the state Department of Transportation’s (DOT) project development office, said they need to space out widening the Everett Turnpike to prevent work from outpacing available funds.

“To continue the construction of Nashua-Merrimack-Bedford, (we need) to delay the completion of it,” Reynolds said. “We need to spread out the spending over more of the Ten-Year Plan so that we can complete that project

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