7/20/16
by News Department on 07/20/16Tolls to increase...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission approved a 6 percent toll increase for both E-ZPass and cash customers.
Turnpike Chairman Sean Logan said this toll increase — like other annual increases since 2009 — is necessary to pay back the borrowing required to meet the PTC’s funding obligations: rebuilding and widening the PA Turnpike system and providing funding to the commonwealth to support public transportation.
Revenues from the 2017 increase will allow the PTC to fund its annual requirement to support off-Turnpike ground-transportation enhancements.
Commissioners also ordered a system-wide reassessment of all Turnpike improvement projects in both the design and construction phases to confirm that the best decisions are being made on capital expenditures.
The increase is set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2017.
