Turnpike Commission Polling Cash Customers About Electronic Toll Collection
The Pennsylvania Turnpike wants to know what cash customers would do if it went to an all electronic tolling system. The Turnpike Commission has launched an online survey.
Turnpike spokesman Bill Capone says the purpose of the survey is to get input on the possibility of the toll road converting to a cashless system, or all electronic tolling system. He says for people who don’t have EZ Pass, electronic tolling would involve taking a photo of their license plate and billing the vehicle owner by mail. About one-third of the turnpike’s customers pay with cash.
The survey ends on August 22nd. It can be found at www.paturnpike.com/aet. By completing the survey, you will be eligible to win a $100-dollar Sunoco gas card.
Capone says people in some other states who are passing through Pennsylvania on the turnpike may not have easy access to EZ Pass, so an all electronic system would take that into account. Right now, EZ Pass is available in 14 states.
The turnpike commission announced recently that tolls would go up 10% for cash customers beginning January 1st, 2012. There will be no increase for EZ Pass customers.
Capone says the turnpike commission is currently conducting a feasibility study to look at converting the turnpike to an all electronic tolling system, so they need to know from their cash paying customers how that might affect them. He says they want to know whether those customers would be willing to convert to EZ Pass or pay their tolls in another way.
