Posted on 02/06/2019 11:10:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The toll bills haven't stopped coming for some drivers in Central Florida after SunPass’ software meltdown last summer.
In fact, state senators were told more than 4 million outstanding bills are still heading to mailboxes, adding up to an outstanding balance of $100 million. Related Headlines
Last June, SunPass took its online payment system offline for a week of scheduled maintenance. At the end of the week, the system wouldn’t come back online. Almost 250 days later, people are still getting bills in the mail for the weeks of tolls that SunPass couldn’t process.
Some drivers with a SunPass account are still trying to pay large bills off little by little. Some are trying to remember where they were months after they used the toll roads.
State senate leaders didn't hold back during a briefing from FDOT on Tuesday. Some said the $780,000 fine on the company wasn't enough.
FUBAR!
Wow, what a cash cow. $100 million could build a lot lot roads, let alone maintain them.
Paid my $5 in 2017 tolls last week.
I never take them... lived here since 1950. The toll authority has been corrupt right from the start... AND tied in with state's Sunpass. Ptooey!
Central Florida roads are light years away from what we knew in the mid-60s aren’t they? I remember the first year after i-4 was completed to Central Florida. It was like heaven. I wouldn’t live in Central Florida again now for love nor money
The lawmaker wanted to know how an unqualified company got the contract...
Bakheesh, baby, baksheesh!
I rarely meet anyone who remembers the groves and all the citrus industry. As kids that is how we kept our cars on the road: we siphoned gas out of grove trucks! 😜 I must have drank / drunk a gallon of gas over time.
All the people I knew then are gone. If I could I would move elsewhere, but time has caught up with me; my old house is all that I have. Living in Orlando is a challenge... but it has its positives also.
How about some of these memories?
Remember driving down I-4 and seeing all the tires burning in the Orange Groves to keep the fruit from freezing?
We used to ride motorcycles out in Altamonte where the Altamonte Mall is now
Back in 1970 I remember driving from the Altamonte down to Tampa on Interstate 4 in the middle of the afternoon with considerably less traffic than there was at 3 in the morning when we left in 2006.
How about rock concerts down at the Orlando Sports Stadium? I saw Jefferson Airplane playing there in 68 or 69. I think I paid $6 for a ticket. So a lot of bands those days up until the mid-70s.
How about some of these memories?
Remember driving down I-4 and seeing all the tires burning in the Orange Groves to keep the fruit from freezing?
We used to ride motorcycles out in Altamonte where the Altamonte Mall is now
Back in 1970 I remember driving from the Altamonte down to Tampa on Interstate 4 in the middle of the afternoon with considerably less traffic than there was at 3 in the morning when we left in 2006.
How about rock concerts down at the Orlando Sports Stadium? I saw Jefferson Airplane playing there in 68 or 69. I think I paid $6 for a ticket. So a lot of bands those days up until the mid-70s.
Not so much tires - prob faulty memory... oil (?) pots, whatever, by the hundreds. It was the freezes that began the great change. The fruit trees all died; the grove owners would have gladly replanted but they were facing maybe 20 years with no income.
Meanwhile these guys named Disney and so forth were shoving million dollar baskets in the grove owners' faces for the land. The rest is relatively untold history.
I escaped all that and in 1964 went to Boston to the Occasio Cortez University - then known as Boston University (they failed to educate me also, and I told them so at the time.) I got married and ended up at one of the TV networks in NYC.
But Orlando seems in the end to be my destiny... here I am and here my body will likely lie in perpetuity. But I still ain't gonna pay no stinkin' tolls! 😒
When I was in college the east west expressway was 15 cents, used it a lot. 47 years later, not only is it still toll, cost had gone up a lot when we left in Jan 2006. Do you know what it is now?
I do recall the smudge pots, but I believe they also burned tires.
The “fine” should have been rebated to the drivers.
It’s not about punishment, it’s about revenue to the state - bigger fine, more $$ for the state.
Private companies should not be taxing citizens and collecting a commission from those taxes.
Ever wonder what % of each toll dollar you pay goes to the state and is (theoretically) spent on those roads?
I think either 50 or 75 cents per toll stop; as I say, I never take the toll roads and when I ride with my son he uses an electronic E-pass device.
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