Same stupid excuses every time. Don’t believe them. They just want more money and don’t want you to think this is a tax, so they call it a toll.
The Toll Roads here don’t even have a Cash Option. All the Toll Booths have been removed.
You don’t even need a Transponder, the Cameras take a Picture of every Vehicle and they have Character Recognition Technology that read the License Plate Numbers just like those Red Light Cameras do.
If you aren’t signed up for automatic Billing, you have five days to contact the Toll Road Agency after you use the Toll Road and pay the Toll before you are fined a Penalty.
You can thank Republicans for this - especially ex governor Corbitt
Ping!
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. I especially like the 100 miles stretch without a service center in Western PA.
The turnpike is truly nothing bus a cash cow for them. On my last trip, I seriously considered taking the southern route and adding 2 hours to the drive to save money.
Adding 2 hours to a 12 hour drive is a challenge though.
When the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge were built in the lat 1930’s the toll was established at $.25 each way to be collected until the bonds that financed their construction were paid off. As of January 1st, the tolls on ALL the Bay Area Bridges ( one way) went from $5 to $6. But that’s for passenger vehicles. I have not looked at the “per axle” toll increases ( I am assuming that they have been increased as well) so if you tow a utility trailer (single axle) across a bridge last year, you cease to be a passenger car and you pay $5 per axle, so for that trailer, you paid an additional $10. Imagine an 18 wheeler (that’s nine axles) was paying $45 to cross. If, as I suspect the per axle toll also went up a dollar, that truck is now paying $54 ( which is ultimately paid by the consumers who by the stuff the truck is carrying.
Seems like PA doesn't care.
Ping
The PA turnpike and NJ Turnpike charge about the same per mile if one drives the entire length of each road at 10 - 11 cents per mile. The biggest toll rip off is the Delaware Turnpike that charges $4 each way to travel about 15 miles for 27 cents per mile going from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the MD state line.
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.
“Parts of our roadway are 78 years old, and we owe it to customers, who pay a premium to travel”
Right.. this is why you’ve been chargin an arm and a leg for it all these years !
Or did someone pocket that money ?