Turnpike Traffic Up Over Labor Day

Holiday travelers kept toll workers on the West Virginia Turnpike busy over the Labor Day weekend. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that toll workers handled about 32,000 more transactions that they did during the same four-day period in 2014; an increase of 7.4 percent. West Virginia Parkways general manager Greg Barr says the turnpike handled a total of almost 467,000 toll transactions from Friday through Monday. That’s a big build over the 4th of July weekend. Overall, traffic on the 88-mile toll road is up about 33 percent this year.