“How will tourist without a toll tag pay these tools?”
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The Dallas area toll system has been cashless for several years. There’s not even people at the toll booths. There’s two ways to pay. The most popular and least expensive is by toll tag as there’s a discount. Those who don’t have a toll tag such as infrequent local users and out of area users will be billed by mail.. License plates are photographed and run through a database for billing info. Personally, I like the system.
“Those who don’t have a toll tag such as infrequent local users and out of area users will be billed by mail.. License plates are photographed and run through a database for billing info. Personally, I like the system.”
I can see a thriving black-market in fake out of state plates.
We’re moving towards that here in the NYC area; too much of the tolls were just used to pay the toll collectors.
I have no problem with the concept (users of a service paying for it), but the tech involved is creepy. When EZ Pass was first rolled out here, the authorities said it wouldn’t be used for law enforcement - then promptly used it to help solve a murder (in which the perps were driving the victim’s car, unaware it had a transponder, and were eventually caught).