Posted on 12/13/2021 1:44:45 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Pennsylvania Turnpike will install overhead tolling gantries on nine bridges that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is considering for tolls.
The work will be part of the turnpike’s $125 million project to install open-road tolling to replace the former toll booths along its 450-mile system.
The possibility of PennDOT adding tolls to bridges — including the Interstate 79 bridge near Bridgeville — to raise money for their replacement is still under consideration, but the agency is finalizing an agreement with the turnpike to collect tolls.
The turnpike is an obvious choice to operate the collection system — something PennDOT hasn’t done. The gantries are expected to record payments from motorists of $1 to $2 each time they use the bridges if they have an E-ZPass transponder or take a license plate photo and send the owner a bill by mail if they don’t.
State Rep. Jason Ortitay, R-Bridgeville, and representatives from South Fayette, Bridgeville and Collier announced during a news conference Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in South Fayette that they have filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court to block PennDOT from implementing plans to charge tolls on nine major bridges cross the state. One of the bridges includes the I-79 bridge near the Bridgeville interchange.
The turnpike will turn the receipts over to PennDOT. Turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo said PennDOT will reimburse the turnpike for the cost of the gantries, collection equipment, customer service and any other staff cost, but the agency won’t make any money on the deal.
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I don’t have a problem with the concept of toll roads, but PA has a huge gasoline tax that promised to revitalize roads and bridges. It didn’t work, or should I say the lazy ass overpaid piece of schiff PennDOT employees don’t work. There is one thing guaranteed in PA. Whatever tax is instituted you get more of government and less done by government. The Commonwealth’s budget should be slashed by $15 billion (about 50%) and send these unionized lazy ass employees to the private sector where they have to earn their pay.
Sheeple get what they vote for or what they stood by and allowed election cheating for...
The Wolf communists are always on the lookout for ways to impose more links in those chains...
the cost to travel that road is terrible..
We had a Doctor at the Cleveland Clinic for 31 years, we had to finally find a Heart Dr. locally in SW PA. due to the cost of travel for just a check up...we both really liked hubby's doctor, but the expense had gotten just too difficult, when living on a limited income.
We avoid the turnpike completely now.
# to raise money for their replacement
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# We don’t tolerate this crap down here in the South. Only place I’ve seen toll roads is in Florida.
They are all over the place in Texas. I avoid them like the plague and scam they are.
“They are all over the place in Texas. I avoid them like the plague and scam they are.”
Yea, we thank the incredibly corrupt Democrat-turned-Republican for all our toll roads. Eventually we did slow him down, but huge damage was done, and remains.
From 2019, on where the money is really going...
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