- The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s (PTC’s) winter weather fleet includes 750 maintenance workers, 250 plow and spreader dump trucks, 45 front-end loaders and 125,000 tons of salt, anti-skid, calcium and other materials.
- The PTC has a strong safety record, with fatality rates less than half of Pennsylvania’s other interstates and below toll roads in New Jersey, Ohio and New York.
- In August 2007, the PTC announced that the entire Uniontown-to-Brownsville section of the Mon/Fayette Expressway would be completed. When completed in 2011, the project will provide a continuous 57-mile stretch of highway between I-68 in West Virginia and PA Route 51 in Jefferson Borough, Allegheny County.
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OUR OPERATIONS
For more than six generations, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) has built, operated and maintained interstate caliber highways that are not sustained with tax dollars. Today, as the PTC’s management continues to focus on its mainline system and expansion projects, we are equipped to handle the challenges of managing additional toll highway miles.The PTC operates a 545-mile system used by 500,000 vehicles per day with operating revenues of $600 million per year. To ensure the safety of our travelers, we:
- Operate a 24-hour traffic-operations center located at our Highspire headquarters with state-of-the-art communications technology enabling our team to share accurate, real-time information on roadway conditions, and respond to incidents across the system.
- Work with Pennsylvania State Police Troop T - dedicated solely to the PA Turnpike - and more than 150 local volunteer fire companies and EMS squads to ensure rapid response to incidents. The Turnpike maintains a close partnership with our volunteers, providing financial and training support.
- Ensure that motorists can communicate with our operations center instantaneously by dialing *11 on their mobile phones or by using emergency call boxes located at one mile intervals along the PA Turnpike.
- Operate a roadway maintenance and safety force including the roving State Farm Safety Patrols, all deployed 24-hours a day across the entire system.
Beyond the Turnpike’s mainline system, there are
numerous other new construction projects the PTC
has been authorized to initiate, complete
and maintain
as a result of Act 61 of 1985. This law assigned
23 highway projects to the PTC for completion and
eventual tolling. Most of these projects have been
constructed and open to the public including three
of the seven sections of the Mon/Fayette and
Southern Beltway Expressway projects.
The PTC is authorized through Act 44 to seek approval to toll Interstate 80 (I-80) in Pennsylvania. If the I-80 Toll Application were to be approved, the PTC’s operations would be expanded to include the operation of the 311-mile corridor. This highway would have up to 10 toll collection facilities that would help to generate $83 billion in transportation funding over 50 years. To learn more about the I-80 toll conversion project, click here.