The Pennsylvania Turnpike is transitioning to a new open road tolling system this Sunday, marking a significant change in how tolls are calculated. The system will utilize axle and height classifications, mileage traveled, and gantries to determine toll rates. While passenger cars may see lower tolls, commercial vehicles anticipate increases. Additionally, a 5% toll hike will be implemented, aligning with the annual increase mandated since 2007 to support public transportation.
PA Turnpike this weekend is introducing a new way to calculate tolls and expanding ‘open road’ collection. Tolls will also increase by 5% on Sunday, but that has been an annual event since 2007 when state law began requiring the Turnpike to help fund public transportation. Sometimes change moves at the speed of a glacier, but it’s arriving in a flash early Sunday morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike . as has been the case since the turnpike opened in 1940.
Officials say the change means motorists will be charged a more consistent per-mile rate.“It’s kind of all at once … but there had to be a Band-Aid day,” said Craig Shuey, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s chief operating officer, referring to the perception that quickly tearing the dressing off a scrape minimizes pain. The two big changes are designed to work in concert, as tolls will be calculated according to a vehicle’s axle-and-height classification and also based on miles traveled and the number of gantries“We are the only system that still uses scales and still weighs every vehicle as it rolls across,” Shuey said. The turnpike in a news release said about half of passenger car trips will cost drivers less than they paid last year under the new system. Commercial vehicles are expected to pay more, but 70% of them should see increases of $5 or less, the release said. Tolls will also increase by 5% on Sunday, too, but that has been an annual event since 2007 when state law began requiring the turnpike to help fund public transportation.When open road tolling goes live Sunday in the east, gantries will begin reading E-ZPasses or license plates to charge customers. Cameras will be switched off at the remaining toll booths at interchanges from Reading east to New Jersey and north to Clarks Summit. The turnpike plans to begin demolishing the eastern booths later this year, and they are supposed to be gone by the end of 2026. Then crews will work westward, where gantries are already going up in some place
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