The cost of tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will increase about 25 percent from January 4, and then rise about 3 percent each January thereafter, the Pennsylvania Turnpike officials said.
The extra money will be used for improvements to the Turnpike and to pay billions of debt for roads and highways, bridges and mass transit projects throughout the state, said Joseph Brimmeier, executive director of the Turnpike Commission.
The increase means that the toll for a car to travel the 359 miles on the Turnpike, which runs from the Ohio border to the border with New Jersey, will be $ 28.45, above $ 22.75 today. The same trip for a truck of 40,000 pounds, five-axis, will cost $ 92.50 dollars, up from the current $ 74.
The last toll increase was a rise of 42% in 2004. The new increase will be the sixth since the turnpike opened in 1940, charging a penny for each mile. Higher tolls on the Turnpike were part of a dual plan approved by the State Legislature in 2007 to fund transportation projects around Pennsylvania.
But the other half of the plan, tolls on the
The costs of transiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike will rise by 25% as of Jan. 4.
Interstate 80, fell when the Federal Highway Administration is not allowed to charge tolls
I-80. The Turnpike Commission is required to provide $ 2.5 billion for state transportation projects from 2007 through 2010. Today, already has paid $ 1.2 billion of that money and pay the rest next year.
"It is clear that the mission of the Turnpike Commission has changed in the last year," said Brimmeier.
In the next decade, the Turnpike Commission will make loans totaling $ 4.6 billion to pay for their own improvement and at least $ 5.7 billion to pay for state projects. The money to pay the $ 10 trillion, plus interest, will the increased cost in tolls from the Turnpike.
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