PA Turnpike tolls......

[eldubb440]

so..... looks like Pa fired all the toll collectors and replaced them with camera to photograph your plates and send a bill........ fine, they save a bunch of money

but I just got my bill for last months trips to Carlisle on the Pa Turnpike.........approx 100 miles each way X 4 .......... 118 dollars

no wonder there are no more collectors, the poor bastards would probably get a beating........

 

[68BabyBlue]

PA pike has always charged extortion, but it gets worse with time. Be glad you weren't running a loaded tractor trailer.

 

[440 PHIXX]

so..... looks like Pa fired all the toll collectors and replaced them with camera to photograph your plates and send a bill........ fine, they save a bunch of money

but I just got my bill for last months trips to Carlisle on the Pa Turnpike.........approx 100 miles each way X 4 .......... 118 dollars

no wonder there are no more collectors, the poor bastards would probably get a beating........

I think they charge less if you get an easy pass. I haven’t been on it in years.

 

[68BabyBlue]

I think they charge less if you get an easy pass. I haven’t been on it in years.

It's cheaper, but still enough to hurt. I've run it quite a bit, but selectively, typically between two exits to bypass an even worse urban route.

 

[eldubb440]

25 cents a mile........ passenger car (Durango).......

seems like they quadrupled (at least) over the last few years........ phukking thieves

 

[Richard Cranium]

so..... looks like Pa fired all the toll collectors and replaced them with camera to photograph your plates and send a bill........ fine, they save a bunch of money

but I just got my bill for last months trips to Carlisle on the Pa Turnpike.........approx 100 miles each way X 4 .......... 118 dollars

no wonder there are no more collectors, the poor bastards would probably get a beating........

Did they actually get fired or shuffled into a new hackerama position?

 

[5.7 hemi]

So what do the gas/diesel fuel tax actually pay for?

Texas has these toll roads, I avoid them like the plague. However, I’d did have to get on them once, cost me $43! But the speed limit is 75mph on them, wasn’t complaining about that.

 

[eldubb440]

25 cents a mile, much more for trucks...... all day, every day

does anyone ever ask where all the money goes?

 

[Richard Cranium]

Is it true that this is the Pennsylvania state animal?

 

[wahya]

We’re you pulling a trailer? I know in Floridah, if I pull a two axle trailer it doesn’t cost double the toll, it costs three times as much. Go figure.

 

[eldubb440]

We’re you pulling a trailer? I know in Floridah, if I pull a two axle trailer it doesn’t cost double the toll, it costs three times as much. Go figure.

nope...... just my 01 Durango

 

[68BabyBlue]

25 cents a mile, much more for trucks...... all day, every day

does anyone ever ask where all the money goes?

I don't want this to go political, so I'll leave it at this - a few years back, when I was still operating my truck, all the major industry trade associations were asking that question after PA started making noises about turning Interstate 80 into a toll road. End result, it didn't happen.

 

[WileE]

Hah ! You want a toll ? You want a toll ? live in the New Toll City, er I mean New York city, area. From NJ over the Hudson river = $17.00. Oh, yeah, if you want to go over the internal bridges or tunnels, that's another $11.00. They force you to get EZ pass for discounts, otherwise pay by mail. Tolls are just indirect taxation.

 

[5.7 hemi]

Isn’t there 22 bridges going into and out of NYC? That can be whittled down according to my friend.

 

[Ron_M]

I can say one thing... The money collected is not used to pick up the dead deer carcasses or truck tire retreads that litter the roads. I think the snow plows do it as the snow flies.

 

[440 PHIXX]

We also have a .59 a gallon gas tax. Right behind Illinois and California. And… back in 2019-2020, Pennsylvania was the world’s 3rd biggest oil producer. Makes sense.

 

[blue69runner]

You're paying for their beach front property in Florida. We have a few toll roads in Fla. buy a sun pass and save. But like the rest of us where is the gas tax going too. Guess in their pockets.

 

[beanhead]

Damn I though nuttyfornia was bad! You Eastsiders are getting hosed big time!
I rarely ever travel on the toll roads up in the Bay Area here, where they've gone to that automated system crap as well.
Last ballgame we went to up there, I drove in the "fast pass" lanes when I wanted and crossed the toll bridges a few times. I received a bill for $21....I can't believe they stick you guys for that much over there, that's horseshit!

 

[XS22J8R]

We’re you pulling a trailer? I know in Floridah, if I pull a two axle trailer it doesn’t cost double the toll, it costs three times as much. Go figure.

In Illinois it’s around 4X the standard toll towing a trailer. There is a modest overnight discount for box trucks, semis and passenger vehicles pulling trailers from 10 pm to 6 am or thereabouts.
And we have the second highest fuel tax in the US too.
Yet the states finances are still a wreck.

 

[beanhead]

Is it true that this is the Pennsylvania state animal?


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