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PA Turnpike Reminds Travelers of 2019 Toll Increase
Pennsylvania Turnpike ^ | January 2, 2019 | Pennsylvania Turnpike News Release

Posted on 01/10/2019 10:52:31 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

HARRISBURG, PA (JAN. 2, 2019) — The PA Turnpike Commission (PTC) today reminded customers that, beginning 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 6, tolls will reflect a six-percent increase for cash, E-ZPass and PA Turnpike TOLL BY PLATE users. The increase, approved by commissioners last July, is needed to meet the PTC’s dual funding obligation to improve its toll-road system and support mass-transit improvements across the Commonwealth.

As a result, the most-common toll for a passenger vehicle will increase a dime for E-ZPass customers from $1.30 to $1.40 and 20 cents for cash customers from $2.10 to $2.30.

The toll increase — like others since 2009 — is required to meet the PA Turnpike’s legislatively mandated funding obligation to support the Commonwealth’s public-transportation systems as well as to maintain and improve the 552-mile Turnpike.

“Parts of our roadway are 78 years old, and we owe it to customers, who pay a premium to travel, to invest in our road and make it safer, smoother and wider,” said PTC CEO Mark Compton. “This year about 84 percent of our $552 million capital budget is focused on renewing, rebuilding and widening our highway which carried more than 200 million vehicles last year.”

The PTC has reconstructed more than 140 miles of its system, with another 11 miles of roadway now being rebuilt and widened and more than 82 miles in planning and design phases. (The PTC does not receive tax appropriations to operate and maintain its roadway.)

(Excerpt) Read more at paturnpike.com ...


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To: Buckeye McFrog

Now I’m really ready. I love roads like that. Sadly, I just got rid of my five speed.

A couple years ago, I was up that way with my sons. We were bombing down a steep hill with a 130 degree 15 mph hairpin at the bottom. As I reached the turn, I jammed the brakes, hit the clutch and dropped into second gear, popped the clutch, engine braked for a bit and floored it. As I was shifting, I looked at my boys and said “That gentlemen is why you drive a five speed.”

My favorite road was a one lane dirt road that went up a mountain pass in Colorado. Huge dropoffs, no guardrails and 2 way traffic. Actual had to back up to let other cars go past the other way.


21 posted on 01/10/2019 11:50:49 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Americans have been screwed by tolls before the country’s founding. I love the “port authorities” that multi-states have. They are a cash cow with no transparent indication where that money goes. I avoid tolls if possible even if it takes more time. Furthermore, watch out for OUR turnpikes being SOLD to foreign companies like our ports to the Chicoms and Mideast countries.


22 posted on 01/10/2019 11:52:06 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: C19fan

I call that the entrance and exit fee for Delaware. US 40 is a couple miles east of I-95 and has no toll


23 posted on 01/10/2019 11:52:24 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
meh...I drive the NE extension of the Pa turnpike everyday and yeah it's
expensive BUT it is 45 mins faster than the alternative and is always clear
on snowy days and well maintained.
24 posted on 01/10/2019 11:55:04 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: major_gaff

We have driven from the Twilight Zone to the Philly area a couple of times a year, Except for the Lehigh Tunnel (the Northbound tube is a disgrace) it is a great timesaver. Much easier than the trip to NYC..


25 posted on 01/10/2019 12:13:37 PM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: morphing libertarian

“do you have figures annual maintenance (without toll taker pay) vs income?”
No, but the higher tolls are reflective of the outrageous overruns on new bridge construction. The new northbound Benicia Bridge came out more than double it’s projected costs. They had to do some very expensive “pile driving” for the bridge’s supporting columns because it was harming the fish in the Sacramento River. The new Bay Bridge Eastern Replacement ( which is a thing of beauty, I will grant you) also went way over budget, and now they are concerned that some Chink steel used in it may be a problem.


26 posted on 01/10/2019 12:46:55 PM PST by vette6387
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To: cyclotic
The turnpike is truly nothing bus a cash cow for them Philthy-area mass transit funds

Fixed.

Hope the truckers win their suit.

27 posted on 01/10/2019 12:50:21 PM PST by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: cyclotic

I was driving a ‘96 Buick with iffy front brakes.
Probably should have had the five-speed.


28 posted on 01/10/2019 12:56:38 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Shady
Agree on that...I get on at Lehigh Valley and travel south so I miss out on the tunnel...do you remember
when there was only one tube?..really bad then.
29 posted on 01/10/2019 12:57:14 PM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: GreyFriar
Where is “here?” Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana still had cash toll booths as of last August.

We had the joy of toll road travel this past summer to the NE and twice hit bridges where there were NO cash options...all electronic ePass systems. The Tappen Zee had several signs for a number to text but I would not have seen it without my Navigator.

Same for the Delaware River bridge connecting the NJTP to PA Tpke...controlled by the PA Tpke Authority.

Called numbers and made arrangements but still got the bill in the mail with the Tag Photo System.

30 posted on 01/10/2019 12:57:30 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I could see that being scary.

I recently told a Judge that the roads in her state were so awesome my exuberance got the best of me.

She laughed pretty hard at that one.

Had to pay the ticket but no points on my record.

Sadly, I could have been going 7mph faster and gotten the same ticket. 90 to 100 is the same fine.


31 posted on 01/10/2019 1:00:47 PM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: C19fan

The actual turnpike covers about 11 miles of highway, at about 36 cents per mile.


32 posted on 01/10/2019 2:05:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: 2banana

Actually, Corbett signed Act 89 in 2013, which reduces the payment for mass transit from $450M/yr to $50M/yr, starting in 2023 (not 2022 like the PR says). Act 44, which began the transfers, initially going to PennDOT in general, rather than just transit, was signed in 2007. Wasn’t Rendell the governor at that time?


33 posted on 01/10/2019 2:08:41 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: cyclotic

“I travel the PA Turnpike frequently. The roadways are fine. But at the confiscatory rates these clowns charge, you’d think they could have sinks and toilets that work in the service centers.”

1) Well, if you don’t like the tolls, you can always walk.
2) People who drive on a road, should PAY FOR THAT ROAD.

The above is what the toll road shills here used to say (technically they didn’t say walk, but they did say use local roads). What they didn’t say is that people on the PA Turnpike are PAYING for Phili and Pittsburg bus and train systems, ALONG with their highway, which are why the tolls are so damn high.

And speaking of the shills - funny how they all went away when Texas changed tune and ended its love affair with toll roads. Wonder just who they were...


34 posted on 01/10/2019 2:10:23 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: cyclotic

I-70 west to I-68 west to I-79 north to avoid the turnpike is pretty scenic. And the traffic jams on I-79 north have at least lessened a bit since they opened the new flyover ramp to I-70 west. Before that was the tight-ass cloverleaf that could back up traffic for miles. Believe me, I know from personal experience.


35 posted on 01/10/2019 2:11:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: vette6387

18 wheelers usually have 5 axles, unless they consider a typical trailer axle as 2 axles because it has 4 wheels.


36 posted on 01/10/2019 2:12:57 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: HarleyD

I figure people would be more willing to pay if the toll revenue didn’t have that diversion to the mass transit unions.


37 posted on 01/10/2019 2:14:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: vette6387

The big problem with that bridge, amazingly enough, was U.S.-manufactured bolts made, I believe, from galvanized steel, which apparently corroded easily from the salty moisture in the air. Unless, of course, the Chinese steel, not subject to the usual stringent U.S. quality control, is already showing its wear.


38 posted on 01/10/2019 2:17:34 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: BobL

TxDOT actually established an account on FR during the Perry PPP years.


39 posted on 01/10/2019 2:19:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No kidding. Did they use their own name, or was it one (or more) of the shills?


40 posted on 01/10/2019 2:57:07 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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