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Should you get your E-ZPass in Maryland or Virginia?
The Washington Post ^ | May 31, 2018 | Luz Lazo

Posted on 06/13/2018 10:13:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Use of the E-ZPass electronic payment system has grown exponentially across the Washington region in recent years as the network of toll lanes has expanded in the Interstate 95 corridor with new facilities from Stafford County to just north of Baltimore.

Both Maryland and Virginia are actively promoting E-ZPass, hoping to reduce cash payment at toll plazas — where the option exists — and to encourage the seamless use of all-electronic toll facilities such as the 495 Express Lanes and 66 Express Lanes in Virginia and the Intercounty Connector in Maryland.

In that spirit, Maryland announced last week that it is making E-ZPass transponders free, eliminating the $7.50 sign-up fee and betting on a greater number of drivers going cashless at the state’s eight toll facilities, including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.The change, however, did not apply to specialized transponders such as the E-ZPass Flex, which is in high demand among drivers who carpool regularly and use Northern Virginia’s High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes such as the 495 and 95 Express Lanes.

Maryland doesn’t have HOT lanes, which explains why the state isn’t pushing E-ZPass Flex sales, nor is it reducing the cost for the transponder. However, John Sales, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority, said the state makes the Flex transponders available to E-ZPass Maryland customers who wish to use them in Northern Virginia — for $16.50.

That means Maryland residents who regularly commute across state lines might still choose to get their Flex transponder in Virginia, where both the regular and Flex transponders are free. Virginia also has made it easy for nonresidents to obtain a Virginia E-ZPass by partnering with AAA stores and other retailers to make the devices available outside the state.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aet; dc; expass; expresslanes; ezpass; maryland; tolls; transportation; virginia
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1 posted on 06/13/2018 10:13:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


2 posted on 06/13/2018 10:14:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
E-Zpass is a surveillance tool of the state.

Go to youtube and search E-Zpass tracking.

But hey, it speeds passing through tollbooths.

3 posted on 06/13/2018 10:16:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hard not to if you travel much. Lots of areas, such as Boston, have removed toll-booths, which make them mandatory to use the roads, else you get bill/penalty in the mail.


4 posted on 06/13/2018 10:19:15 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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5 posted on 06/13/2018 10:25:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

As if cameras couldn’t go up on freeways too for that purpose. The law generally goes, that if you can see it in public, it’s okay for the government to note it too.


6 posted on 06/13/2018 10:44:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
go to youtube and search the ez pass tracking videos.

Those pylons and traffic boxes popping up around cities are keeping track of your every turn and stop.

7 posted on 06/13/2018 10:58:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s my point... it’s all over the place anyhow. Tolling systems are simply monetizing it.


8 posted on 06/13/2018 11:26:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: yesthatjallen

And I know... paranoia.

The best way is to get the kind of government that you don’t care if it knows where you have gone.


9 posted on 06/13/2018 11:28:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: yesthatjallen

License plate readers mean that they can track you even without the EZPass RFID device (assuming it’s the ‘sticker with a chip’ modern device used in Texas and midwest tollways). There’s no significant difference at this point.


10 posted on 06/14/2018 12:13:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ed pass signs in Virginia stink. You an get killed just trying to read one at 60. Mph and they don’t care.


11 posted on 06/14/2018 1:15:35 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Left Md in ‘75, it was going down the tubes then. You get the kind of government you vote for.


12 posted on 06/14/2018 2:03:42 AM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: yesthatjallen

Info from I-Pass was used in a divorce case in Illinois. Ex-wife’s lawyer used the I-Pass tracking to prove Husband was not where he said he was.


13 posted on 06/14/2018 3:56:19 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Spktyr

“License plate readers mean that they can track you even without the EZPass RFID device (assuming it’s the ‘sticker with a chip’ modern device used in Texas and midwest tollways). There’s no significant difference at this point.”

Yep, the days of driving without being tracked are OVER. The only remaining question is what is done with the data? Who has access to it? You boss, political opponent, wife, ex, lawyer, her lawyer, etc.? And for how long?

And does anyone even care?


14 posted on 06/14/2018 4:42:38 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL

Don’t have any idea if this is true, but had a dump truck driver tell me that he has a 4” diamond plate border around his tag and he shines & polishes every morning and the cameras can’t get a picture due to the glare?
Wouldn’t that be something!!!


15 posted on 06/14/2018 5:03:22 AM PDT by conservativesister
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
no one has answered the question yet so I'll take a stab at it. Maryland offers a 10%or better discount if you use maryland roads with a maryland ez pass. You used to have to pay 20$ for each pass and they have a draconian way of using your credit card I didn't like and it is used to keep a minimum balance in you ez pass account. I got a mass card because they were free and they only wanted 20$ in your account and they don't use your cc until it gets below 5$. I just don't get the discount in maryland. Its 6$ to cross the 301 bridge to leave the state! theres no toll booths coming in.. you can check i. for free but you cant leave .. Don't know about Va or where you will using it. I see the day coming where is will be like south florida, no toll workers and they will send you a bill with outrageous handling charges. ref the 3.50$ toll with the 50.00$ handling charge mentioned earlier
16 posted on 06/14/2018 5:11:21 AM PDT by Ikeon (Its all about power, the winners love the system the losers all complain... until they are in power.)
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To: EC Washington

“Ex-wife’s lawyer”

Imagine if it were a murder case - say an innocent husband reports death and tells cops at the scene where he was, etc..

But, oops, made a mistake in the details and cops find out thanks to nazi-pass.

Now they can charge him with lying to the police. If they exhaust all other leads, they might even be able to use that “lie” to get a murder conviction.


17 posted on 06/14/2018 5:42:07 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is BS. Why have we been paying taxes on gasoline at the pump for decades?? What have they done with this money?? Sure as hell not filling pot holes.


18 posted on 06/14/2018 6:19:59 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: .44 Special

Best results from my college days. Met my wife of 43 years, got commissioned in the army, moved out of MD. Only reason I visit is family and friends still live there but I rarely go back.


19 posted on 06/14/2018 8:03:51 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: bravo whiskey

We went last week for crab cakes and soft shelled crabs


20 posted on 06/14/2018 8:05:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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