Hey, in 1953 when they proposed building the Ohio Turnpike, they said that after 1983 they would stop collecting tolls. Guess what . . . . . . (fill in the blank)
If I am going east as far as Breezewood, I will gladly spend the extra 20 minutes on U.S. 30 to save the stupid tolls. Not only is the scenery better and the congestion way less, but if there is an incident on the turnpike, you can literally be trapped for hours.
Like those busses full of school kids who attended the pro-life rally in DC a few years back.