PA TURNPIKE GETS READY TO START USING GANTRY SYSTEM IN JANUARY

The PA Turnpike is getting ready to start using it’s gantry system in January.  The Trib reports that the turnpike commission has been developing open-road tolling since 2010 and a pilot gantry on a bridge on the Delaware Road in Bucks County in 2016 before committing to the whole system.  Nineteen gantries have been active on the eastern side of the state in 2025.  11 more on the western side and eight more in the central area of the state will go active on January 3rd.  The new configuration is safer and more convenient for customers as the tollbooths required drivers to brake and merge into one of several lanes, creating a hazard, while the gantries let them stay in their lanes and maintain their speed, he said.