Kathy Liebler
Manager, Public Affairs & Media Relations

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Contact:  

Joe Agnello
(724) 755-5262, (724) 755-5142 fax
e-mail: jagnello@paturnpike.com

November 4 , 2004

Both the eastbound and westbound E-ZPass Express lanes at the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s mainline toll facility at Warrendale (Milepost 31) will be closed for a time on Saturday, Nov. 6 for routine maintenance.

Technicians will be checking the camera equipment at the site and the system that receives and processes signals sent out by the transponders used by the Turnpike’s E-ZPass customers.

The E-ZPass Express lanes will close at 8 am. It is expected that they will be reopened no later than 4 pm. Turnpike maintenance crews and Troop T state police will be on hand to assist in traffic control.

E-ZPass customers will have to use designated E-ZPass lanes in the regular fare collection areas on either side of the facility’s open middle area, where the express lanes are located, until the E-ZPass Express lanes are reopened.

The Warrendale mainline toll plaza opened on June 1, 2003, at the border of Marshall and Pine townships in Allegheny County. E-ZPass Express lanes were opened at Warrendale in June 2004.

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