No amount of increase will ever satisfy government officials or union workers.

Mon- fri all morning, at valley forge exit, ezpass lanes are backed up bad! I just sail thru with cash. I especaily enjoy when there is a bad accident, I have to exit, and still pay a toll. What service was provided? Im nowhere near my destination, and had to wait while everyother sadsack pays his toll.

It's like a minnow trap when one goes in, the rest follow. Soon all will be lured into "lower rates" and will then all be trapped in a tracking system.

Coach- if your governor didn't insist on corporate welfare in PA for MC and Shell, while making deep cuts, other 'fees' and taxes wouldn't be going up. There is such waste in Government..take the row offices for example...they should ALL be part time jobs...I'm sure you will agree

fire the commissioners & get rid of their ridiculous salaries & benefits!They spend money like it`s someone else`s - and it is -OURS!

With the amount of work that is being done on the PA turnpike as well as work on roads in all participating states, I have know problem paying a bit more.

Having used E-Z Pass for quite a few years I find it very convenient, much like being able to swipe any credit card. The down side is that people that work the cash tolls will be replaced with the technology.

I agree with the above comment on ending "corporate welfare" which is long over due. If Corbett and the State Legislators were serious about the financial issues of our State the first thing they should have done was close the Delaware Loophole as well as any other Tax Dodging Loophole. Maintaining the Tax Dodging Loopholes for their special pets only shifts the revenue burden to the rest of us who don't come anywhere close to making the kind of income that these corporations do, even if they weren't able to dodge paying taxes.

"Business Friendly" to Corbett and the Legislature to this date, in truth, actually means Tax Dodging Friendly.

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The few roads that have tolls are subsidizing, for example, the endless work done to make roads pristine in central Penna. So, those of us who are paying EZPass (and that's mostly eastern state residents) are subsidizing the rest of the state's roads, to an unfair degree. I-80 is a classic example. 322 to Penn State is another example- no expense barred for that endless construction. It is an endless subsidy of construction workers in central Pa.

Toll increase goes to transit unions Philly (Septa) & Pittsburgh to settle labor contracts. Act 44? passed under Rendell took money from tolls and diverted it not just from the turnpike but also from Act 44's? intended use - roads & bridges and the money was diverted to mass transit union contracts. Republicans such as Double Dip Duane Milne voted for the legislation. When you pay extra in turnpike tolls or see a bridge closed detour, or hit a pothole on 2002 or 30 you can think kindly of the SEPTA bus driver union & their pensions & benefits which your turnpike tolls now fund. Additionally substantially over One Billion in federal highway money was diverted from roads & bridges and "flexed" to mass transit by Rendell. Roads & Bridges crumble & more is needed since we did not spend the money as originally promised to you the taxpayers. Why should we trust politicians ever again.
The fair share debate about rural roads and our region's roads is a fair argument which should continue. It just doesn't apply to the turnpike toll issue. In that case the tolls were simply diverted to union bus contracts. Slots gambling is another example. Slots was supposed to go for property tax relief. Almost half that money was diverted to Economic Development (Philly Convention Center, etc) You just can't trust these guys

I am sure they have interstate federal funds. The roads out west are 100 times better without the tolls. Where, where does all that money go?

I, too, wonder where all the money goes? At a time when so many people are unemployed, and the economy at a standstill, a 2% rate increase was awarded? Everything can be negotiated. The "funding obligation" of 450 million is being spent where, exactly? Who does the PTC answer to anyway, or did they just arbitrarily announce this all by their own selves? <Linda Spreeman, King of Prussia>

The US needs to follow the example of countries like Germany who don't have the on going problems with road repair. They dig much deeper when they put their roads in and with harsher winters they have little year to year damage that needs repairs.

The US is so far behind, because of the powers that be are so busy waving their flags and pretending that what we accomplished in the past is the only thing that matters in making a great nation, that we are falling behind in just about everything.

All around the world we see better roads, better and more efficient mass transportation, more people earning higher education degrees, less people dying from the lack of health care.

Yes, people still want to come to the US and people still seek the proverbial American Dream, but that Dream is slipping away for way too many, because of politicians and those afraid of progress, new energy, and change in general are holding our nation back.

Change the way we build the roads and be smart enough to build roads like 202 with more lanes in the beginning and we won't have the never ending construction and rising tolls.

You do realize that in European countries with "better roads" have higher taxes then anywhere in the US (VAT and GST), and they still do have toll roads, right?

The Turnpike is a private roadway.... little to no tax money goes INTO it.... hence why they always had odd interchanges with other Interstates (I-80 is an example).

PA stole road money & gave it to union bus drivers Septa & Pittsburgh. It really is that simple. Almost two billion maybe more diverted/flexed away from roads to transit union benefit contracts