Just four years after the Turnpike started to make these massive payments of $450 million annually to PennDOT, it became clear that the obligation was unsustainable for the Turnpike and our customers. In 2013, state legislators passed Act 89, which slashed the annual payments from $450 million to $50 million per year beginning in 2022. However, the measure did not relieve the Turnpike of the debt resulting from borrowing close to $9 billion from 2007 to 2022.