No more cash: Maryland explores changing tolls to electronic only

The Capital Gazette ^ | April 13, 2018 | Katherine Brzozowski

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[butlerweave]

Toll booths should be outlawed

[LegendHasIt]

All the better to track you with, my dear.

[max americana]

I’ll pay at a toll booth if they turn the freeway into the Autobahn but not this nonsense.

[Jonty30]

And if you don’t have a credit card and you only operate in cash?

[Fai Mao]

And if I don’t live in Maryland but am just passing through?

[napscoordinator]

Then you get billed and send a money order.

[Mears]

As the article said——takes a pic and sends a bill.

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[Rebelbase]

[Paladin2]

Welcome to The Matrix.

[stylin19a]

Illinois is almost there.

[TheCipher]

or by video tolling — when the state uses a license-plate photo and mails drivers their bill.

Where are the cameras placed to take a shot of the plate ? Most likely it is to the front of the car as it passes through the toll lane. If you are from a state such as SC, you only have a plate on the back of your car. So all these cams would get is a picture of a vanity plate or nothing at all.

[Paladin2]

Just wear your Bill Clintoon mask...

[steve86]

How do they collect the out-of-state license pic tolls? Send them to collection agencies if not paid? What’s to stop me from completely ignoring them? Have no concerns about my “credit score” - don’t use credit and haven’t for years. I imagine with in-state they can block the vehicle registration or suspend the DL - I wonder if that can be done inter-state?

[lgjhn23]

“...As the article said——takes a pic and sends a bill....”

Yep....same as the I-65 bridge in Louisville, KY
Went thru there last summer and saw the sign for the “toll bridge” and kept looking for a toll booth.....nothing. Oh well. Then, about 2 weeks later, I get a bill in the mail with a pic of my truck & license plate.

[yesthatjallen]

EZ Pass is a tracking device:

Go to youtube: ez pass tracking

[a fool in paradise]

>>save the state money, reduce accidents at toll plazas, and reduce CO2 emissions as less fuel is being burned

Or just use the gas tax to build highways and stop using drivers as a cashbox to fund other spending in the state.

Save money (on staff at booths)
Reduce accidents
Reduce pollution/congestion

Win
Win
Win

Reduce the size of government

WIN!!!

[vooch]

If interstates were privatized, they’d be smooth as silk

[steve86]

The snapshot cams at a toll bridge near here take both: front (with an effort to capture an image of the driver) and rear also (with optimizations so the typical plate obscuration tricks don’t usually work).