HARRISBURG – PA Auditor General Timothy DeFoor released a second performance audit of the PA Turnpike Commission which found its financial position has improved, but that debt management and unpaid toll collection continue to be challenges. The audit found the Commission continues to face significant challenges to raise toll revenue to make future payments to PennDOT with those increases burdening travelers, including the need for the Commission to annually increase toll rates through 2055. The Commission has seen a significant increase in bad debt expense and the amounts reported for uncollected and unbillable tolls since the implementation of all electronic tolling in June 2020. Although the PA General Assembly and the Commission implemented additional toll collection enforcement methods, the audit found those efforts did not result in the actual collection of outstanding tolls. You can read the complete audit by clicking on the photo below.
TIMOTHY DE FOOR