Contact:

Joe Agnello
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Western Regional Office, New Stanton, PA
(724) 755-5262
fax: (724) 755-5142
e-mail: jagnello@paturnpike.com

September 16, 2008

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will have an E-ZPass sign-up team working in the Student Center at California University of Pennsylvania from 10 am to 3 pm Thursday, Sept. 18 and Friday, Sept. 19.

Those stopping by to open an E-ZPass account should provide their driver's license, vehicle registration card, license plate number and year and description of vehicle. They will leave with an E-ZPass "tag" they can use immediately in any fare collection lane, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, where the purple E-ZPass logo is displayed.

The tag is a small transponder mounted on the windshield that sends a signal to an overhead reader in the fare collection lane. The devices interact to classify vehicles and deduct appropriate fares from pre-paid accounts while drivers keep moving.

It costs as little as $38 to open an account, with $35 of that being a prepaid balance that does not expire. It's easiest to pay by credit card or debit card and authorize automatic replenishment when your pre-paid balance drops below $10. Transponders can be moved between vehicles.

Customers can view transactions and print monthly statements from the Turnpike's Web site. All personal account information is confidential.

Pennsylvania's E-ZPass program functions seamlessly with designated fare collection lanes on most Northeastern and Atlantic Seaboard toll roads and a growing consortium of toll roads extending as far west as Illinois.