Highlights of the Toll Increase
(Effective at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009)

• Most Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls will increase by 25 percent.
  (Tolls on the newest sections (Findlay Connector/PA-576 and Mon-Fayette Expressway/Turnpike 43 Uniontown to Brownsville section) will remain at their current rates. These rates were set in anticipation of the increase.)
  
  
• This rate increase is only the sixth rate change in more than 68 years.
  
  
• The upcoming 2009 toll increase will supply $1.3 billion in new funding in the next year and a half for statewide road and bridge projects and mass-transit agencies in accordance with Act 44.
  
  
• Toll-increase proceeds are mainly earmarked for non-Turnpike projects. The funds generated by this increase will largely be used by PennDOT to help finance off-Turnpike road and bridge projects and the state's 74 mass-transit operations.
  
  
• The most-common cash rate for passenger vehicles will increase from 75 cents to 95 cents.
  
  
• The most-common rate for commercial vehicles will increase from $6.25 to $7.85.
  
  
• New toll rates become effective at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 4.
  

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission operates and maintains 545 miles of toll roads in the state. It oversees 60 fare-collection facilities, 19 service plazas and 26 maintenance facilities. With 2,250 employees, it generates $619.2 million in annual gross toll revenue from 185.4 million vehicles a year. Known as "America's First Superhighway," it opened Oct. 1, 1940.

Click here to view the 2009 Tolls Press Kit.

To view the new toll rates, click here.