Pennsylvania Turnpike Tolls To Increase By 6 Percent Next Year

PITTSBURGH (NEWSRADIO 1020 KDKA) - The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has approved a 6 percent toll increase that will take effect next year.

Beginning in January, tolls will increase 6 percent for both cash customers and E-Z Pass users.

In addition to improving and refurbishing the Turnpike itself, a 2007 law required the Turnpike Commission to borrow money to support transportation in other parts of the state.

Turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo says the burden of that 2007 law continues despite a new transportation funding scheme approved a few years ago.

The 6 percent increase means the most common toll for passenger vehicles, which represents the average of one interchange trip, will go from $1.16 to $1.23 for E-Z Pass customers, and from $1.80 to $1.95 for cash customers.

DeFebo says a new transportation funding scheme approved in 2013 lessened, but did not eliminate, the burden of the 2007 law.

Toll rates will not increase next year on the Delaware River Bridge cashless tolling point.

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