One thing about that particular section of the PA turnpike ... if you get onto the Turnpike at Cranberry (about 15 miles east of New Castle), you don’t get charged anything heading west to Ohio. They hit you with that $5 toll heading back into the state. Technically, the toll is $2.50 in each direction ... They did studies back ~ 2000 and found that they were spending more money maintaining booths on that 25 mile stretch of roads and that most traffic that went west ultimately came back into PA.
I’m sure the proliferation of EZ Pass will mean that those old booths will reopen and they’ll keep that $5 toll, but that $5 is not as bad as it seems at first.
That’s better than what I ran into in Delaware. Years ago I was in Newark, Delaware for work. I decided to go over the border to Maryland to get something to eat. Being unfamiliar with the area, I didn’t realize that there was a $4 toll to leave Delaware, and another $4 toll to come back.