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I remember when the Mass Pike cost a quarter. They had exact change lanes where you would toss your quarter into a basket and the gate would lift up. Every now and then, some clumsy person would miss the basket and it was always a bit of a comedy show to see the driver opening the door and squeezing out of the car to find the quarter on the ground while drivers behind him/her honked and honked.

Now it's something like $9 to drive the Mass Pike from the NY border into Boston for even a regular car.

A few years back, they removed the tollbooths and installed toll "gantries" which are banks of mounted cameras that can scan your license plate even if you are going 120 m.p.h.

Now the tolls just creep higher and higher because people are just flying under the gantries without a care in the world, with no clue how much the tolls are adding up to be.

Here's a little known fact. Law enforcement can provide the Mass Pike (managed by Raytheon) a list of license plate numbers and the state police will receive an email whenever one of those plates passes through a gantry and can dispatch a patrol car to come get you. So if you have any unpaid tickets or other warrants, do not use the Mass Pike!

It has been a few years since I’ve been to Florida. We often took the Sun Coast highway(589) to Brooksville, Fl from Tampa. The toll road had started removing some of the toll plazas during the upgrade. Long term snowbirds had to buy transponders or pay online. If one was down there for a month or so a bill would show up at your home address. Florida didn’t intentionally stick it to out of staters for not having a transponder.