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What are those metal structures over the Turnpike?

Gantries are perhaps the most visible part of Open Road Tolling. The project manager overseeing their installation walks us through the design process.

 

 

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New Cumberland Safety Patrol Driver Saves Baby Pig

After 23 years with the Pennsylvania Turnpike, not much surprises Robert Sharpe.

But last week, the PA Turnpike Safety Patrol driver rescued a tiny pig from the side of the highway, leaving Sharpie, as his friends at the New Cumberland Maintenance Facility call him, with a lot of questions, like “how did he get here?” But, of course -- 

“The pig’s not talking,” Sharpe said.

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