Posted on 08/20/2016 8:06:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
...and waiting...
The road is obsolete. I don’t know how it qualifies as an Interstate. If you want to be the one car sandwiched in between a hundred trucks and ruin your suspension go at it. I will take I-70 or I-80 or even Route 30 over that toll road. It’s a dying road in a dying state. “You Have A Freind In Pennsylvania” ............... “Can I Get A Receipt?”
It cost $6.10 to travel 45 miles on the turnpike from Allentown to Plymouth Meeting. If you use this road to commute to work it will cost you $12.20 every day day!
The filthy RAT Ed Rendell was governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. He looted the treasury first chance he got. That’s why we called him the governor of Philadelphia.
Tolls are older than our income tax.
“Is it possible that a toll road could price itself right out of its market?”
Nope. They’ll be banned because they are racist. OR If they are not banned a subsidy will have to be given to compensate some peoples lack of ability to afford to travel on them which will defeat the purpose of charging a toll.
$1’s ain’t gonna get you far in PA. If you run the entire turnpike between Ohio and Delaware, your toll is $48.90.
There are relatively few rest area/service centers. Most are severely overcrowded and often the sinks and toilets are out of order.
We run most of the distance several times a year and tolls are a huge expense.
If the Pennsylvania turnpike is too expensive then drive on West Virginia’s I 77/I 64
When the original section from Carlisle to Butler was built in the 30’s it was quite an engineering achievement at the time. And it was actually completed ahead of schedule and under budget, a RARE occurrence for a gov’t project.
100% correct. The diversion of toll revenue is dedicated to keeping bus and train fare low for the urban ghettos in PA. Slick Eddie will never stop milking others to help his electoral base in dung heaps like Notth Philly.
I never understood why thousands of people would pay for the same patch of asphalt daily. The first turnpike I experienced was in PA.. It was rough and crowded. Kinda made me wonder if they took their milk jugs back after every serving and paid for the whole thing again. Still doesn’t make sense to me. A democrat thing, paying for bad to worsening conditions and paying more for i.e.
Pa. Turnpike is working on making the whole thing 3 lanes each way.
In a different Commonwealth, Massachusetts, hey don’t worry, the Mass Pike will be toll free once the bonds are paid off, so look forward to the 1980s when that will happen.
Actually at one time then MA gov William “Libertarian VP Nominee” Bill Weld, then a Republican, got rid oif the tolls in western MA.They have since been restored, as has the fee for car registration for drivers in good standing that he had waived.
Rte 43 in SW PA cost 25 cents at each end of a 30 mile drive when they opened the highway 20-30 yrs ago. Drive that cost $1.00 then now costs $8.10.
Yes, I believe you’re right.
True that. But we only travel a short distance on it usually, and the $1s are about x30 just in case we forget to get enough cash. The last time we went, we had it covered - but not on return. That’s when my “stash” came in handy. Some poor SOB barely got through one booth, then had to go to the shame spot when he hit the next.
Our time is coming ...
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