Former Pa. Gov. Dick Thornburgh is the latest to call for ending the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
He notes that the ” top-heavy” PTC, with more than 2,000 employees, manages 537 miles of turnpike highways; compared to PennDOT which manages nearly40,000 highway miles along with tens of thousands more miles of localroads, railways and bridges.
“The Turnpike Commission is a haven for those who wish to gorgethemselves upon commonwealth tax dollars and load the payroll forpolitical purposes.”
Couldn’t say it any better, although It’s always nice to note that toll booths are always devices funded by taxpayers to snarl traffic, waste gas and produce smog and are an extraordinarily inefficient means of raising revenue.