Let me get this straight...you have to pay to drive on a road in PA?!
You pay to drive on most roads in Florida as well. I see this as a revenue stream for states as they drop state taxes or get rid of them.
PennDOT, being a corrupt mobbed-up organization, constantly runs in the red. Pennsylvanians pay some of the highest gas taxes, yet our roads still suck. Consequently in Harrisburg they lay awake at night thinking up ways to shift that cost onto people who don’t live here.
Our equally corrupt former Governor, Fast Eddie Rendell, hatched a scheme whereby he wanted to toll I-80 to force everyone driving from New York to Chicago to fund PennDOT. Problem was that violates Federal Law, and even his buddy Obama could not find a work-around for it.
But the enabling legislation for that scheme forces the Turnpike Commission to fork most of their money over to PennDOT every year. As PennDOT spends further in the red they are literally forced to keep hiking tolls.
Turnpike Commission, most expensive, corrupt gummint organization in PA, which in itself, is one of the most corrupt state in the Union.