Yes, the Pennsylvania Turnpike is the most expensive toll in the world | VERIFY
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2023
- With Memorial Day in the rearview, the summer travel season is officially underway. Many drivers across the Commonwealth are likely to take the Pennsylvania Turnpike to get to their summer destinations.
People who drive the Pa. Turnpike frequently know the drive is gonna cost you more than a couple of dollars.
THE QUESTION
Is the Pa. Turnpike the most expensive toll road in the world?
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I just had to pay an eye watering bill of $48.58 for the Gateway-Wardendale-Somerset drive, about 2 hours. My air flight was cancelled, and I had to drive this dreadful road to get home, without my EZPass. Fees galore, what a racket.
Highest toll, highest gas tax, and worst roads, leading to significantly costlier car maintenance. This state has so many stealth expenses, it’s ridiculous!
No government oversight, we need Trump back to clean the swamps
@@samehmikhail5039 Are you saying you want a president who uses the Federal government to tell states what to do with their state taxes and state-funded roads?
No. No revenue from the gas tax is received by the PA Turnpike Commission. Gas tax revenues go to PennDOT, and the PA Turnpike had to pay PennDOT $450 million per year from 2007 through 2021 because of Act 44. And if you realized that PA Turnpike roadways were separate from PennDOT's state highways and they are spearate entities, you would never state "worst roads" associated with the PA Turnpike.
It is a very simple rule for management, replace with qualified people unless it is a gold mine, high tools, bad roads, Hugh traffic, accidents almost every other day
@@OMIGHTY1 not exactly but over see the operation to make sure that is serving the people, and it is enough we have corruptions on the Township level.
I have alternate routes that I use when traveling from Erie to eastern Pennsylvania or anywhere else I may be forced to use the turnpike.
To Lehigh Valley/Philly: I-79 to I-80, I-80 to I-81, I-81 to I-78, then whatever local roads I feel like taking.
To Altoona area/central PA: 79 to 80 to I-99.
To Harrisburg: 79 to 80 to 322/22.
To Baltimore, MD/D.C.: I-79 to I-68 in Morgantown, WV. Then 68 to I-70 in Hancock, Maryland, and 70 the rest of the way.
The extra time and gas I may have to spend taking these detours STILL don't add up and to the obscenely insane amount of money the Pennsylvania Turnpike charges travelers.
You gotta try using the 407 here in ontario.
Ban toll roads
They're real crooks, alternatives for truckers ain't interstates, they will have to go through US-30 and multiple state Highways through their damn mountains, this is the only interstate to cross through this area!
take 68 or 80
I’m a poor widow I work at Amazon and I’m taxed 75 dollars on my paycheck for living in wva now I got a bill in the mail for 100 for the turnpike !! I have to try to find another job pa should be ashamed!!
I have to quit my job because of that ignorance
another pa mess i drove it last fall and my bill was $104.00 to travel from lancster to Pitt. what happend to the budget suplus in pa????????
you can literally get an ezpass in a rest stop on the tollway and start saving right away....
@danielking.123 Or take Routes 22/322/I-99. Travel time to or from Pittsburgh and Lancaster is only about 45 minutes longer than the Turnpike, and NO TOLLS.
I find the turnpike from New Stanton to Breezewood to be a great alternative to I-68 when travelling from Columbus to Baltimore.
PA Turnpike authority is corrupt, tolls go up, traffic is the worst . NJ is a very small state got 3 lanes for each trucks, and cars but PA Turnpike got only 3 lanes total and trucks/ trailers allowed on the left lane?
Tolls go up and service is degrading. We need our representatives to investigate that authority.
the PA turnpike is massively longer compared to the size of NJ.
True, but NJ Turnpike Authority reserved the land around the old existing 3 lanes for future expansion, then started working slowly on the project as needed, it is called planning. There is almost an accident every morning on PA turnpike, Traffic jam everyday in the same area, dangerous trucks driving crazy on the left lane, tolls sky rocketing . It is all about corruption.
@@samehmikhail5039 PA Turnpike had to pay PennDOT $450 million per year from 2007 through 2021 because of Act 44. All because the PA legislature did not want to raise the gas tax further. No revenue from the gas tax is received by the PA Turnpike Commission. Gas tax revenues go to PennDOT.
cost me 62$ to drive on this road for less then 100 miles of driving
Yea, just like everything else in PA. Ask yourself why? Because we have criminals running this State. People need to put a stop to all these things. I have been all over this country and our roads suck
Meanwhile we pay the highest gas taxes. We could have the best roads in the country and extremely low toll roads. Let’s query our state police where the funds went… oh wait, they stole them.
hey yeeyee man... who are the criminals btw?
@@danielking.123 go read the Pennsylvania and United States Constitution and then answer your own question
Ask yourself why you are oblivious to the fact that the PA Turnpike Commission is self-funded while state roads are maintained and operated by PennDOT. The funding for PennDOT comes from gas tax. Frontlinemedia: literacy, the more you know.
@@TheChaswing self funded? Lol. Who's paying? I also know a landscaper that did work on their main office. They just decided not to pay up when the job was done. So I guess they are really self funded. Try crawling out from under your rock
Yea and PA has the sh*tiest roads 🤬
And it’s ridiculous because they don’t even fix the roads .. they’re pothole filled!
Go back to tolls. You have to pay when going through. The turnpike started hemorrhaging money the day they gave up direct toll paying which worked for many decades. So you see technology is not always the answer nor is it always the easiest. The Pennsylvania turnpike was the last mega project in Pennsylvania. The governor made the comment about how we can accomplish anything when we work together at the day when the i-95 bridge partially opened. So come on Pennsylvania. Rise up! Lets see if the new governor is really ready to work together on something. Let's roll up our sleeves like the generation of the late 1930s did and did before technology, cell phones, GPS and the improved machinery of today. Lets do another mega project. From one end of the state to the next. Highspeed bullet train technology. From the new Jersey state line to the Ohio State line, this 200 mph bullet can cover Allentown, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh and when the time comes, New Jersey and Ohio can pick it up where we left off. Ohio can continue it to Indiana and so on till it reaches the west coast one day. Naaaa, despite all the technology we have today, it's today's generation that is lazy and sluggish. They have no ambition nor motivation. Always sitting around and thinking of excuses and reasons not to do something instead of simply doing it. With a devided government in this land called United, their support would be only in dreams and a project of this magnitude would be to complext for our might governor to take in. Another fine reason why i don't vote. But it would be nice to go from Philadelphia to Harrisburg in 30 minutes or Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in 2 hours instead of 4 to 6 hours by way of the expensive turnpike. We are americans which means, our own ignorance will cause us to continue to pay the high cost of turnpike fees and like it rather than coming up with a much better and faster solution. Highspeed bullet trains and maglev super train technology is available only in the far more advanced countries of the far east and Europe but here, it is the new american dream....
A train is the answer but can you source your info on how 'giving up direct toll paying' hurt the budget?
Logan Peron, your headline is very misleading and the your reporting hyperbolic. Who would EVER drive from the Ohio state line to Plymouth Meeting and then take I-476 to past Wilkes-Barre and exit at Clarks Summit? That's NOT driving the PA Turnpike from "end-to-end", which is driving from Milepost 0.0 and going west-bound to the Delaware River Bridge, a total of 358 miles. Based on your misuse of the PA Turnpike Toll calculator to drive up the toll cost, your bias in 'reporting' caused you to fail to use Google maps for that itinerary, which can be accomplished far more efficiently by three other routes.
When you report vehicle gas consumption, its $ cost per gallon. Why wouldn't your headline accurately report a conclusion cost in dollar per mile?
Why wouldn't you also report that by using the PA Turnpike from 2007 through 2021, you helped fund PennDOT at $450 million per year so that the PA legislature wouldn't raise the gas tax but could tax the PA Turnpike instead?
The turnpike must have learned from Trump. Take money and grift
It's a democrat run organization (same as every corrupt bankrupt city in the US) so taking in millions and still being bankrupt is the name of the game.
Way she go's 🤢