The tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike have been increased by 6 percent on all E-ZPass and TOLL BY PLATE rates throughout the system. A TOLL BY PLATE rate has also been established for all toll facilities except; Beaver Valley Expressway, Delaware River Bridge, Gateway Toll Plaza, Greensburg Bypass, Keyser Avenue…
A proposal has been put through to add tolls to a number of bridges throughout Pennsylvania and the local Department of Transportation has approved it. It has not been announced yet what bridges will have tolls added to them or how many bridges will be getting this new ‘upgrade’. The…
The American Trucking Associations and its partners requested to block the truck-only tolls in Rhode Island. These requests were denied by a federal court, but just barely. The tolls were put into effect two years ago and the daily maximum for a truck toll is $40. Going straight through on…
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority has approved a toll hike of 36% on the turnpike and 27% on the Garden State Parkway. These increases are to pay for $24 billion in infrastructure projects including the widening of lanes for both highways. For big rigs, the tolls will increase from $9…
The American Transportation Research Institute has released new research about how tolls are collected and where the money goes. This was deemed a top priority project in 2019. The research includes analyzing 21 major toll systems that collected over $14.7 billion and shows that almost 50 percent of it was…
The American Trucking Associations has told a House Subcommittee that using tolls to finance construction and maintenance of the infrastructure is damaging to the trucking industry. They are more than willing to pay their fair share but feel that tolls are not the way to to go and hurts the…
On I-95, in the southern part of the state, two tolls in Rhode Island have brought in $7.2 million with higher numbers predicted next year. With pushback from the trucking industry, RIDOT confirms that they are following the legal rules when it comes to these tolls. The third toll will…