As we get into the New Year, plan on paying more on the PA Turnpike.
Tolls will increase by 6 percent in 2016, with the rates going into effect this Sunday (Jan. 3). Both E-Z Pass users and cash customers will be affected.
With the new rates, the most common toll for a Class-1 (passenger) vehicle will increase from $1.09 to $1.16 for E-ZPass customers and from $1.70 to $1.80 for cash customers.
The most common toll for a Class-5 vehicle — a prevalent tractor-trailer class — will increase from $9.05 to $9.59 for E-ZPass customers and from $12.80 to $13.60 for cash customers.
“The 2016 toll increase — like other annual rate hikes since 2009 — is needed, in part, to repay the substantial borrowing required to meet the PTC’s financial obligations under state laws signed in 2007 and 2013,” said Turnpike Commission Chairman Sean Logan of Monroeville. “Act 44 of 2007 requires the PTC to make annual payments of $450 million to PennDOT used mostly for statewide mass-transit operations; under this law, the PTC has transferred nearly $5 billion to date to PennDOT for off-Turnpike use.”
Rates will likely continue to go up after even after 2016 is through.
The commission expects to impose annual fare increases of 3-6 percent until 2044.
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