I have been traveling regularly into PA from MD for the last 8 years and have considered retiring there. This is just another reason to consider retiring elsewhere. Although many parts are conservative, it’s been influenced too much by the liberal mindset of the states surrounding it.
Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls may or may not be "too pricey" compared to the cost of taking local roads or I-80 across Pennsylvania. The market should decide. Price tolls too high and everyone will take the back roads or I-80.
This issue is that some people are stealing the PA Turnpike tolls. "If only the tolls were cheaper, people wouldn't need to steal!" I think you can make the same argument about just about anything. "If only ____ were cheaper, people wouldn't need to steal!"
I avoid it like the plague. I come from MA to Lancaster PA so I take 78 over and 222 down. No pike.
“It’s illegal to use tolls collected on a federal interstate for anything other than the operation and maintenance of that interstate.”
If that’s the law, New York and Delaware must be flagrantly violating it. Delaware charges $8 for 15 miles; at that rate the Pennsylvania Turnpike would cost about $150. And because it’s between Baltimore/Washington and New York/New Jersey, you probably have four times more drivers per mile paying in. So that’d be like $600.
Meanwhile, in New York, one g— damned bridge is $17.
What are we all going to do when self driven autos become common, and mandatory insurance rates for human driven machines “necessarily skyrocket”? We should all seriously quit licensing our vehicles, and throw away our drivers licenses en masse. Will it make the roads less safe? Not one bit. Will it make us more free, YES quite a bit. QUIT COMPLYING with the beast.
Breezewood, Pa.—Isn’t that the place they call the Windy City? Or maybe that’s Galesburg, Ill. or Hurricane, Utah.
In any case, the only time I drove from Pittsburgh to breezewood, I took Route 30.
Just DemoRats on the road to running out of other people’s money!
I just don’t ever see myself going anywhere near the entire northeast.
When I lived in PA and drove the turnpike, I always figured the tolls were to pay to see the world’s biggest pothole collection.