Toll workers on the West Virginia Turnpike handled more than 1
million transactions during the Fourth of July holiday period.
The traffic on the 88-mile toll road
was up more than 2 percent compared to the same 11-day period in 2013.
Turnpike officials use an 11-day window
to measure the holiday's traffic because July 4 falls on a different day of the
week each year.
Parkways Authority general manager Greg
Barr says the heaviest traffic was on Sunday. Toll booths recorded about
164,000 transactions on Sunday.
Barr says the increase is due to
several factors, including a three-day holiday weekend for many and traffic
traveling to and from the Greenbrier Classic golf tournament at The Greenbrier
in White Sulphur Springs.
