This bill would increase toll tags to $0.35 per the axle, while maintaining the current cash toll beginning on July 1, 2006.
Mr. McCall attributed the operating losses to an "increasing trend in personal service costs and a decline in toll revenues resulting from a decreasing trend in the number of paid cash tolls."
Tourists taking the Maine Turnpike 106 miles from York, close to the New Hampshire border, to Augusta, pause to pay three cash tolls, although there are 15 toll gates for drivers entering on local plazas.
Created in 1990 and launched on January 1, 1991, Pikepass provides a faster and cheaper alternative in paying cash tolls.
The Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge is a toll bridge, and the cash toll is US$4.00 for cars (as of 2009).
In addition to cash tolls, toll plazas have dedicated electronic toll collection lanes for quicker operation.
Two weeks later, on Jan. 2, cash tolls will rise on the bridges from $2 to $3.
Rather than impose cash tolls, they choose congestion.
Ultimately he decided against both, instead proposing to issue more debt under the renamed Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission, with cash tolls raised annually over a ten-year period to compensate.
As of 2012, the cash toll for a standard-size car is 900 regardless of distance travelled.