Motorists will pay 6% more for traveling on the toll highway in 2019 | Somerset

The increase will apply to all toll sections and all extensions, including the Delaware River Bridge cashless toll in Bucks County, where the tolls do not apply. changed since 2016.

According to the Commission, the most common toll The vehicle will pass the next year from $ 1.30 to $ 1.38 for E-ZPass customers and from $ 2.10 to 2, $ 25 for cash customers. The Delaware River Bridge cashless toll to the west will increase from $ 5.00 to $ 5.30 for E-ZPass customers and from $ 6.75 to $ 7.20 for those using PA Turnpike TOLL-BY-PLATE. The most common toll for a category 5 truck will increase from $ 3.45 to $ 3.66 for the E-ZPass and from $ 15.35 to $ 16.30 for cash.

The 2019 fee increase – like the previous annual increases – is required "Since 2009, the TPC has increased tolls each year to meet a funding requirement required by a state law. of 2007 known as Law 44 ", said the PTC. Mark Compton, CEO of PA Turnpike. "Under this legislation, the commission has provided $ 6.1 billion in secured funding to PennDOT over the last 11 years."

For the first three years of this legal requirement – 2007 to 2009 – the CTP has transferred $ 750 million and $ 900 million respectively to PennDOT. From 1965 to today, his directive was $ 450 million a year

Compton said that this increase will also support the asset management efforts that the CTP was charged with building, operate and maintain in the mid-1930s. "Part of our toll will soon be 78 years old and we owe duty-paying customers to continue to invest in our road to make it safer, smoother and wider," he said. Mr. Compton. "This year, about 84% of our $ 552 million investment budget is to renew, rebuild and expand our road network, which carried more than 200 million vehicles last year."

CTP has rebuilt over 132 miles of its network. with 19 more kilometers of road being reconstructed and enlarged and more than 82 miles currently in planning and design phase.