The legislature passed a law a few years back that automagically increases tolls annually by an INSANE percentage.... The toll for the first non toll booth section of the turnpike coming in from OHIO has gone from $2.90 to $7 in less than 7 years, and will be going up again come January 1.
Its a complete scam anymore. It went from being a slush fund for cronies to be a cash wow for them.
They keep doing things to “LOWER THEIR COSTS” while lowering service and raising their rates... Its absolutely inexcusable.
If you travel all the way across the state, from Ohio border to the Deleware bridge the toll is currently 51.85, and its going up January 1 again. A distance of about 340 miles.
So they are over .15 a mile now, and rates go up again January 1.
My family has some property in Central PA.
Let’s just say I’ve found ways other than the Turnpike
to get there.