PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE When the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s fifth consecutive annual toll increase takes effect Jan. 6, drivers who use cash will be paying about 70 percent more than they did five years ago.
E-ZPass users, who now account for two-thirds of the turnpike’s business, have been shielded somewhat from ticket shock: Rates for them have climbed about 35 percent since before January 2009.
The newest increase will be 10 percent for cash payers and 2 percent for users of E-ZPass, the electronic collection system that automatically deducts tolls from prepaid accounts when a driver passes a tolling point… (more)
EDITOR: Is the Turnpike Authority milking a transit monopoly for all it is worth? And, if so, for whose benefit?
Republicants don’t raise taxes they just fee and surcharge you to death.
No. The Pennsylvania State Legislature didn’t have the political will to find permanent funding to repair the state’s crumbling highway infrastructure, so as a temporary fix they mandated that the Pennsylvania Turnpike will help fund highway repairs all over the state.