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Print Edition Highlights - May 11, 2023
Staff reports
In the tradition of Churchill Downs, Greystone Derby Day Battle of the Roses was a day full of Kentucky Derby fun, complete with a traditional Derby Day menu, mint juleps; a Ladies' Hat, Derby Gent and Best Derby Couple contests; silent auction, games, entertainment and a live showing of the 149th Kentucky Derby.
It was also one of the premier spring charity events that raises funding for veterans, through Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania or VOPA.
For the rest of the story see the May 11, 2023 edition.
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) has begun building the final phase of its All-Electronic Tolling (AET) implementation. Work is underway to relocate tolling points in eastern Pennsylvania from their current interchange locations. New highway-speed collection points are being built along the roadway between interchanges using a technique called Open Road Tolling, or ORT — a cashless, free-flowing mode of collecting tolls without traditional toll plazas or tollbooths.
With ORT, tolls continue to be paid electronically, but now vehicles will drive at highway speed beneath overhead structures — called gantries — located on the PA Turnpike between exit and entry points. Equipment installed on the gantry and in the roadway identifies and classifies vehicles and processes E-ZPass and Toll By Plate payments.
The PA Turnpike is constructing 19 gantries — with small utility buildings to house the required equipment — east of the Reading Interchange (Exit 286) to the New Jersey line and along the entire Northeastern Extension (I-476). The eastern ORT system will go live in 2025. The ORT system for the central and western PA Turnpike roadway is expected to be built beginning in 2025, with an anticipated go-live date of 2027.
For the rest of the story see the May 4, 2023 edition.
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