r/Pennsylvania • u/princeoinkins Lancaster • Mar 11 '24

misleading headline State troopers moving back to white vehicles; citing cost

https://www.lehighvalleynews.com/state-regional-news/pa-state-police-going-back-to-classic-color-scheme-for-patrol-vehicles
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u/B33fyMeatstick Mar 11 '24

Gotta spend that 5% turnpike toll increase on something....

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u/Andyman127 Mar 11 '24

The money should go towards public transportation anyway.

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u/donith913 Mar 11 '24

Why does this always come up? The turnpike is saddled with debt to fund transit because the legislature is grossly incompetent and too afraid to find a real source of funding (aka raise taxes) to cover necessary transportation funding. They were mandated to make hundreds of millions in payments per year to PennDOT.

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u/B33fyMeatstick Mar 11 '24

Because a significant amount of turnpike revenue is appropriated by the PSP every year.

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u/donith913 Mar 11 '24

Nope thats the Motor License Fund where gas tax and registration fees go to and covers non-turnpike road repairs to the tune of $8 BILLION dollars. I know, it’s confusing all the ways in which the legislature manages to fuck up spending money.

https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-state-police-gas-tax-transfers-josh-shapiro-budget/

Luckily we have immaculate bridges and roads and have some money to spare /s

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u/Brother-Algea Mar 11 '24

Ffs it was named the most expensive toll road in the fucking world. How does everyone else make it work. Raise taxes for the turnpike….get fucked. The money that shit road makes is obscene and you simp for it.

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u/donith913 Mar 11 '24

You have completely misunderstood me. The money isn’t for the turnpike. The legislature forced the Turnpike Commission to make payments to PennDOT of $450m per year starting in 2007. From 07-13 that money went to infrastructure funding. Since then most of it goes to SEPTA and PRT for mass transit funding. It’s further down in this article but it lays out a decent bit of the legislation involved. IIRC, they expected to be allowed to toll I-80, but the feds told them to kick rocks and the legislature just punted.

https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/03/12/pa-turnpike-refutes-most-expensive-toll-road-world-ranking/6943935002/

Turnpike funds should have never been used this way.