Posted on 04/17/2017 7:49:38 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Josh Kalin drives between Delray Beach and Delaware a couple times a year to visit his son and he has to have a SunPass and an E-ZPass account to pay the tolls.
"It's a pain in the neck," said the 80-year-old retired opthalmologist.
There's no end in sight. Although Congress required that all state toll systems be compatible by October 2016, the deadline passed and no new target date has been set.
"We are unaware of any federal action as a result of the missed [deadline]," said Chad Huff, with Florida Turnpike Enterprise.
Florida's SunPass, Georgia's Peach Pass, and North Carolina's Quick Pass all recognize each other's transponders at toll booths and gantries.
Compatibility with South Carolina toll systems should be in place later this year, Huff said, and Florida is working on deals with Texas, Louisiana, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Turnpike officials say the state is ready to accept E-ZPass, but the 16 E-ZPass states in the Northeast and Midwest are not ready to accept SunPass.
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I drove through an EZ Pass toll booth in New Hampshire in a rental car, when on vacation a while back, and the EZ Pass didn’t register, and an alarm went off. I just kept driving; I didn’t know what else to do. The toll got added to my rental car bill.
I don’t travel much on toll roads. But it seems that they have put us in a position, in which we have to take initiative to get a pass so they can bill us. They are making it so you can’t just pay cash toll to an actual human being if you drive a toll road. It’s up to us to understand the technology they are using, which can be different in different states. All so they can compel us to pay them for the privilege of driving on the road.
I post too soon. I meant to say, we are paying for the privilege of driving on roads which in some cases were already paid for. And what about the gas taxes we all pay; don’t those go for upkeep of the roads? What’s with the spread of toll roads around the country?
Several states including CO and CA have mobile apps you can sign up with your license plate, deposit money and you don’t need a transponder. This is great when renting a car and you don’t want the gouging you’ll get from the rental car place for a transponder.
I don’t see why we can’t have something like that, scan the license and debit the money.
I was driving through Virginia when they had a lot of road construction going on and I got routed off the regular lanes and into an EZ Pass lane w/o realizing it - got the bill, with penalty added, in the mail a week later.
How much was added to your rental car bill?
I drove through a toll booth in a rental car and tried to pay cash as I did not want to pay an additional $20 ‘convenience’ fee to the rental car company. Even though the rental car’s ezpass device was closed it was still picked up before I could pay. It took weeks to get a refund from the rental car company.
As I recall it was about $11 added to the rental car bill. There was some “convenience fee” also added in.
I’ve noticed some exits on some toll roads don’t even have a booth with an actual person anymore. It’s just expected apparently, that people have the EZ pass to make their payment.
Gonna be fun when a person has two different kinds of passes in his car, and they both work, and he gets billed twice. What fun!
"It's a pain in the neck," said the 80-year-old retired opthalmologist.
Perfect example of a whining octogenarian snowflake. You make a couple of trips a year between two places more than a thousand miles apart, and you're complaining that you need two different electronic toll transponders instead of one?
Grow the hell up, dude ... or just set yourself on fire on your next trip so all these horrific problems come to an end.
I’m patiently waiting for Sunpass/EZ-Pass compatibility so I can drive Florida’s turnpike. However, if Sunpass becomes compatible with TxTag first, I’ll just purchase a TxTag through the mail and do it that way, since I’m planning to eventually move to Texas.
On a recent trip to Florida, I discovered that I had run up over $50 in tolls with my transponder.
The solution is to remove toll roads.
FREEways get the economy moving.
Congress mandated and nothing happens
Fact is those electronic fast pass boxes are a pain in the butt.
LOL. I think it’s beyond a First World Problem. It’s more like a Manufactured Problem.
Hey nut job
Toll roads are double taxation why should any driver have to have any electronic device. If they want a toll road then pay some works or buy some cameras
No reason a citizen should have to have any device
Alberta's Child
Civil Engineer
:-)
It’s a twofer - the tollway authority doesn’t have to pay salaries and benefits for a bunch of people, they don’t have to maintain expensive machines to collect cash (and pay people to count it) and in exchange for lowering all those costs, they can raise the tolls with just a couple clicks (or even better, make tolls for separate segments so you don’t realize the toll for that drive is $50 which you never would have paid for at a toll booth...)
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