Highlights of the Toll Increase
(Effective at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010)
Most Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls will increase by 3 percent. (Rates for the Findlay Connector/PA-576 will remain at their current rates.)
This rate increase is only the seventh rate change in more than 68 years.
The 2010 toll increase will supply new funding 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 73 mass-transit operations.
The most-common cash rate for passenger vehicles will increase from 95 cents to $1.00.
The most-common rate for commercial vehicles will increase from $7.85 to $8.10.
New toll rates become effective at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 3.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission operates and maintains 545 miles of toll roads in the state. It oversees 62 fare-collection facilities, 16 service plazas (2 others are temporarily closed) and 26 maintenance facilities. With 2,169 employees, it generated $638.2 million in annual gross toll revenue from 186.2 million vehicles a year for fiscal year ending May 31, 2009. Known as "America's First Superhighway," it opened Oct. 1, 1940.
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