PA Turnpike Tolls Increasing In 2025: Here's How Much They'll Go Up

PENNSYLVANIA — Get ready to pay more to travel on the twisting, winding Pennsylvania Turnpike. Tolls will increase by 5 percent beginning Jan. 5, an increase that turnpike commission officials approved in July.

It's the 17th straight year tolls have risen on America's oldest toll road.

Turnpike commission officials contend, however, that about 84 percent of E-ZPass users and 74 percent of toll-by-plate trips likely will see a nominal increases at worst. That's because the new toll schedule moves the turnpike to a consistent per-mile rate. It also changes how vehicles are classified from weight-based to axle and height under Automated Vehicle Classification, which follows national standards for vehicle classification.

Specific 2005 rates can be found on the turnpike commission's toll calculator.

Also on Jan. 5, the turnpike begins the move to open road tolling, beginning east of Reading and on the Northeast Extension.

Under the new system, tolls are charged electronically as motorists drive at highway speeds without slowing down or stopping beneath overhead structures known as gantries that are located between interchanges.

Equipment on the gantry and in the roadway processes E-ZPass or Toll By Plate transactions. Turnpike commission officials assert that removing toll booths eliminates obstacles, increases sight lines for motorists and reduces distractions when entering and exiting the system.

“The launch of open road tolling is perhaps the most significant change since the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940 as America’s first superhighway’ and continues our legacy as a national leader in transportation,” Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary and PA Turnpike Commission Chair Mike Carroll said in a statement.