{"id":322781,"date":"2026-11-07T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322781\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:36:13","slug":"pennsylvania-turnpike-to-use-open-road-tolling-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322781\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Turnpike to use open-road tolling in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for a new tolling method on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Jan. 3, 2027, open-road tolling will be the standard tolling system across Pennsylvania when the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission launches it from Reading to the Ohio line. If you&#8217;re a frequent traveler or driver, you&#8217;ve likely encountered it on the eastern side of the state or somewhere else in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will no longer be tolling you at the interchanges. But we&#8217;ll be tolling you through high-speed gantries that are between the interchanges,&#8221; Mark Compton, CEO of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/snapshot-2026-11-06t183536-981.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"snapshot-2026-11-06t183536-981.jpg \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pennsylvania Turnpike to use open-road tolling in 2027<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo Credit: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)<\/p>\n<p>Gantries are overhead structures that drivers travel through as they get charged electronically for a toll while still going highway speeds and not having to slow down or stop. The way it works is that there&#8217;s equipment on the gantries that scans E-ZPasses or license plates, with invoices then sent by mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a backup power system to make sure they continue to operate during a power outage.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said the sites for the tolls are chosen based on roadway geometry, availability of utilities, location of existing interchanges and availability of right-of-way.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, once all are running statewide, crews will work to remove toll booths from the western side of the Turnpike by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for the conversion, the Turnpike encourages you to double-check that you&#8217;ve mounted your E-ZPass properly and your accounts are updated, though charges can be disputed.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the hope is that open-road tolling will provide more efficiency on the roads, with a system that&#8217;s sustainable in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To give you a much safer and more seamless way of travel through the interchanges,&#8221; Compton said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get ready for a new tolling method on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 2027.\u00a0 Beginning Jan. 3, 2027, open-road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,4696],"class_list":["post-322781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}