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No more cash: Maryland explores changing tolls to electronic only
The Capital Gazette ^ | April 13, 2018 | Katherine Brzozowski

Posted on 04/14/2018 8:17:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Maryland Transportation Authority is exploring phasing out all cash toll booths across the state.

Today, tolls are collected three ways: by cash, or electronically, by either an E-ZPass transponder or by video tolling — when the state uses a license-plate photo and mails drivers their bill.

Transportation officials say that the transition to all-electronic, high-speed toll collection will: save drivers time on their commute, save the state money, reduce accidents at toll plazas, and reduce CO2 emissions as less fuel is being burned, according to a national study by the University of Central Florida.

Drivers in Maryland could start seeing new plazas that only collect tolls electronically at highway speeds by the summer of 2019, said Kevin Reigrut, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority.

However the state has no specific timetable or budget for all-electronic tolling at this time, Maryland Transportation Authority Communications Director Cheryl M. Sparks told Capital News Service.

The transition would also mean that anyone driving on Maryland toll roads could soon need an E-ZPass to avoid paying higher fees, and 218 toll operator positions will be phased out across the state.

If you pay using video tolling, Reigrut said, you pay 1.5 times the base rate for that road — and if drivers don’t have an E-ZPass by the time Maryland’s electronic tolls are phased in, that’s the price they’d pay across the state.

This means that drivers from other states who use Maryland roads will be forced to pay more if they don’t have an E-ZPass by the time of the transition.

(Excerpt) Read more at capitalgazette.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: accidents; aet; cash; construction; conversion; electronic; ezpass; funding; infrastructure; jobs; maryland; mdta; tollbooths; tollbyplate; tolls; transportation; videotolling
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1 posted on 04/14/2018 8:17:56 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 04/14/2018 8:19:09 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

Toll booths should be outlawed


3 posted on 04/14/2018 8:20:33 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: All

All the better to track you with, my dear.


4 posted on 04/14/2018 8:20:40 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: butlerweave

I’ll pay at a toll booth if they turn the freeway into the Autobahn but not this nonsense.


5 posted on 04/14/2018 8:22:08 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And if you don’t have a credit card and you only operate in cash?


6 posted on 04/14/2018 8:26:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And if I don’t live in Maryland but am just passing through?


7 posted on 04/14/2018 8:27:08 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Jonty30

Then you get billed and send a money order.


8 posted on 04/14/2018 8:28:40 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Fai Mao

As the article said——takes a pic and sends a bill.

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9 posted on 04/14/2018 8:28:45 PM PDT by Mears
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10 posted on 04/14/2018 8:36:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Welcome to The Matrix.


11 posted on 04/14/2018 8:36:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Illinois is almost there.


12 posted on 04/14/2018 8:37:03 PM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
or by video tolling — when the state uses a license-plate photo and mails drivers their bill.

Where are the cameras placed to take a shot of the plate ? Most likely it is to the front of the car as it passes through the toll lane. If you are from a state such as SC, you only have a plate on the back of your car. So all these cams would get is a picture of a vanity plate or nothing at all.

13 posted on 04/14/2018 8:37:44 PM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: Rebelbase

Just wear your Bill Clintoon mask...


14 posted on 04/14/2018 8:38:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How do they collect the out-of-state license pic tolls? Send them to collection agencies if not paid? What’s to stop me from completely ignoring them? Have no concerns about my “credit score” - don’t use credit and haven’t for years. I imagine with in-state they can block the vehicle registration or suspend the DL - I wonder if that can be done inter-state?


15 posted on 04/14/2018 8:38:09 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Mears

“...As the article said——takes a pic and sends a bill....”

Yep....same as the I-65 bridge in Louisville, KY
Went thru there last summer and saw the sign for the “toll bridge” and kept looking for a toll booth.....nothing. Oh well. Then, about 2 weeks later, I get a bill in the mail with a pic of my truck & license plate.


16 posted on 04/14/2018 8:39:01 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EZ Pass is a tracking device:

Go to youtube: ez pass tracking

17 posted on 04/14/2018 8:39:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

>>save the state money, reduce accidents at toll plazas, and reduce CO2 emissions as less fuel is being burned

Or just use the gas tax to build highways and stop using drivers as a cashbox to fund other spending in the state.

Save money (on staff at booths)
Reduce accidents
Reduce pollution/congestion

Win
Win
Win

Reduce the size of government

WIN!!!


18 posted on 04/14/2018 8:42:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: max americana

If interstates were privatized, they’d be smooth as silk


19 posted on 04/14/2018 8:43:44 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: TheCipher

The snapshot cams at a toll bridge near here take both: front (with an effort to capture an image of the driver) and rear also (with optimizations so the typical plate obscuration tricks don’t usually work).


20 posted on 04/14/2018 8:46:13 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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