Turnpike tolls won't be printed
HARRISBURG — Drivers who pay their Pennsylvania Turnpike toll in cash soon won’t be able to find out how much they owe by looking at their ticket.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission won’t be printing the costs of tolls on tickets when tolls go up on the 545-mile highway, beginning next month.
Tolls are set to increase annually under a transportation funding law. They’ll go up 10 percent for cash customers.
Turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo tells the Patriot-News of Harrisburg that, by not printing the fares on tickets, the commission will save money: New tickets won’t have to be printed every year.
But Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner tells the newspaper he is appalled by the decision, calling it a “mistake in judgment.”
