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Toll-Free Hassle - When good EZ TAGs go bad (Automated traffic ticket camera failures)
Houston Press ^
| October 28, 2004
| As told to Richard Connelly
Posted on 12/09/2004 12:44:18 PM PST by weegee
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(photo: Daniel Kramer) Explorer? Mustang? It's all the same to Harris County.
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:44:18 PM PST
by
weegee
To: weegee
This reminds me of an old "ADAM-12" episode...
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:47:12 PM PST
by
2banana
(They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
To: weegee
This is OLD news for NJ residents...
To: 2banana
They "suggest" getting a new plate. Unless he can get the police to change the address associated with the OLD plate, he will still be mailed the citations.
No different than if he sold the car to someone who refused to get new plates.
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:48:32 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: weegee
EZ Pass should be abolished. Instead of abolishing the tolls in NJ they made it easier to pay. That's great logic if you're a DEVILCRAT State Senator, Assemblyman or Gayvenor but if you're a regular serf taxpayer it sucks.
To: weegee
I love these stories. (My neighbor says we live 50+ miles from the nearest traffic light.)
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:50:10 PM PST
by
FreedomFarmer
(*Mischief * Managed!*)
To: weegee
The agency's computer system reads and enhances the license plate photos Perhaps they should actually look at the pictures, rather than relying on a computer that is having a poor track record. (Then again, that means a government worker would actually have to *do* something beyond his job description).
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:50:18 PM PST
by
Fudd
(Never confuse a liberal with facts.)
To: frog_jerk_2004
I posted this in part because of a stepped up call for such cameras in Houston (by the Daily Pravda...):
CAMERA-SHY It's time to implement videocam traffic enforcement
Then again, this is the part of the state that has started giving co-tags to students so that officials will know when/where they got on/off the bus. If we gave them GPS tracking chips, we would be able to find them when they were kidnapped.
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:51:19 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: frog_jerk_2004
...Or PA Turnpike Drivers.....
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:53:00 PM PST
by
JSteff
To: FreedomFarmer
"My neighbor says we live 50+ miles from the nearest traffic light."And what do you say?
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:57:31 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: weegee
""It could be that this guy is out running the tollway and has taken a piece of black tape and made his N an M."Hmmm, now there's an idea!
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:59:18 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Redbob
I drive a horse and buggy, and don't have the time or inclination to go look.
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:00:10 PM PST
by
FreedomFarmer
(*Mischief * Managed!*)
To: weegee
Geeze, if they know when he comes thru and how often, maybe they could post a cruiser there to arrest the scofflaw the next time he shows up!
To: frog_jerk_2004
EZ tag COULD be abolished if the tollway (which has been drawing in more money than anticipated) were being paid off instead of refinanced with the money siphoned off for other things.
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:01:05 PM PST
by
weegee
(WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
To: weegee
"It turns out there are not two such license plates in the DPS database, although there is a 2002 Mustang listed whose license plate is identical to Smith's except it includes an N where Smith's has an M. "It could be that this guy is out running the tollway and has taken a piece of black tape and made his N an M."
So what's stopping Smith from changing HIS 'M' to and 'N' and makinig life Hell for the Mustang owner?
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:01:34 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: weegee
There has to be a known failure rate for these systems. I'm guessing around 5%. The company that makes them and the cities that buy them need to report the failure rate so the public is informed.
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:01:39 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: weegee
EZ tag COULD be abolished if the tollway (which has been drawing in more money than anticipated) were being paid off instead of refinanced with the money siphoned off for other things.PING! Like paying the salaries for the toll takers and other infrastructure that is a direct result of the toll booths themselves.
To: frog_jerk_2004
This is OLD news for NJ residents... Can you point me to any other NJ articles about this...it's happening to a friend of mine. She doesn't have EZ-Pass & yet they suposedly photograph her going through EZ-Pass lanes...
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:03:53 PM PST
by
pookie18
(Clinton Happens!)
To: weegee
I received an EZ Tag (or whatever it's called) ticket from the Golden Gate Bridge a couple of years back.
Trouble was, I was no where near 'Frisco on the date in question.
Luckily for me, I was in a Rental Car in Los Angeles at the time of the ticket, while my POV was safely ensconced in my garage.
It took weeks of telephone calls, Xeroxing and other time wasting to rid my Car Registration of this ticket.
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posted on
12/09/2004 1:04:13 PM PST
by
TommyUdo
(The Democrat Party-- Proudly Pimpin' off Po' Folk since 1964)
To: Kirkwood
There has to be a known failure rate for these systems. I'm guessing around 5%. The company that makes them and the cities that buy them need to report the failure rate so the public is informed.The failure rate in NJ a while back was so unbelievably high that everyone I knew that had EZ-Pass had at least one of these summons. They were all dismissed by the State but then Gov. McGreedy (McGreedy for money and gay lovin') decided to fleece the EZ-Pass users by surcharging us with a $1 month service fee.
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