PING.
I’m about 200 miles from the nearest toll rod and plan to keep it that way.
Dog-bites-man story. Now, tolls going down, that would be news.
This is the states way of taxing the PA Turnpike users without calling it a tax.
The cheezy pols don't have the guts to raise the gas tax since it is one of the highest in the nation, so they put a levy on the turnpike and the commission just keep raising the usage rate, and only the turnpike users get screwed, while city users of public transportation get the benefit.
Holy moley.
$62 from the Ohio Gateway across to Philadelphia?
It’s enough to make you look for an alternate route.
Still paying for Slick Eddie Rendell
Public Transit??......Give everybody a free “Obama Car”...problem solved....../s
...and if you believe that...
...your tax should go up 50%...
I seem to remember something about the turnpike that it opened ahead of schedule and below budget, and was supposed to be paid off in the 1970s. Forty years after that plan expired it’s 10 billion dollars in debt and nearly everyone who works there or has worked there in the last forty years has a connection with a PA politician: nephew, mistress, idiot son of a donor, etc...
If you want the corruption to end in PA, at least one halfway noncorrupt political party has to be available to vote for.
When they say “public transit” they are really talking about SEPTA and the corrupt state unions.
When “Fast” Eddie Rendell was the governor of Philadelphia, he pushed this crap through, along with the casino tax. The idiot Corbet was suckered into raising the gasoline tax, to also pay for mass transit. It is a bottomless pit of corruption.
Remember Rendell’s push to make I-80 a toll road?
I used to drive from the DC area to northern Indiana/western Michigan on a regular basis for close to 40 years. For a long time, the toll on the PA Turnpike from Breezewood to the Ohio line (161 miles) was $6.40; the toll for the entire Ohio Turnpike (241 miles) was $3.50; and the toll from the Ohio line to South Bend on the Indiana Toll Road (80 miles) was $2.00.
Now, the toll from Breezewood to Ohio is about $20.00; the toll in Ohio is something like $13.75; and the toll in Indiana is over $4.00.
Living over 30 miles west of DC these days, I take I-66 to I-81 to VA 37 to US 522 to VA 127 to WV 29 to MD 51, connecting in Cumberland, MD with I-68, then 75 miles west to I-79, then 45 miles north to I-70, then west to Columbus, then use I-270 northwest to US 33 to OH 115 to US 30 to the east outskirts of Fort Wayne, then I-469 to I-69 to the first exit, then left a couple of miles to IN 3 to Kendallville, left turn on US 6 to Ligonier, then turn onto US 33 to Elkhart. Total tolls for this routing: $0.00.
It’s been years since I drove the PA Turnpike. Me recollection was of a pothole strewn road with crappy service facilities. Paying to drive on it was an insult.