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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
WTF is this bullshit? The light that goes green when your EZPass is read is a great feature I always thought? Now it's illegal according to the Feds? Got this email today, this is a part of it:
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This Space for Rent |
If they bump the speed limit to highway speeds when passing through, this is a good thing. Be like Denver and get rid of the toll booth in its entirety. We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye Liberals are like pussycats and Twitter is Trump's laser pointer to keep them busy while he takes care of business - Rey HRH. | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
why the hell would it be against fed law? Wait wait! I know. It's because the state is getting into the business of "Interstate Commerce"! we all know that's reserved for the Federal Government in the Constitution!   | |||
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Chances are it's got something to do with the fact that they used a traffic light. They just updated the EZ Pass lanes in the Delaware River Bridges into Trenton to do something similar. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it  |
They should really make lanes where you don't have to slow down. Readers are above the road like large road signs. We have some new toll roads in MD and VA and both use this techknowledge. 100% better then the old systems. No toll both. If you don't have a EZ Pass they use you plate and send you a bill. It's a little more though. That's the only issue but just get an EZ Pass. I drive the Dulles Toll Road in VA a few times a month and can not believe the number of people at times waiting in line at the lanes to pay with cash. Sometimes those line look like the are 1/2 mile long with 2 or 3 toll station open. I just drive right through the EZ Pass lanes. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Well..the Dulles Toll Roadway was just suppose to be temporary until the road construction was paid off......that was many years ago...like 27+ or more. You see how that worked out.  At first is it was about 25 cents the full length and I have no idea how much it is now since I haven't used it since 1992. 41 41 | |||
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Web Clavin Extraordinaire |
There are at-speed tolls around SE PA, but not everywhere, just some of the large interchanges like 476 to 276, but strangely enough there isn't one at the gargantuan TP entrance/exit at KOP. Go figure. ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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| Ol' Jack always says... what the hell. |
You mean out of Trenton ;-) I usually take the Trenton Makes bring over but last I recalled the route 1 Bridge had a sign that said "Toll Paid" or something like that, no lights. On the PA TPK the new first toll plaza has high speed lanes for EZ Pass and toll booths for cash on the sides. | |||
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| Just for the hell of it |
We had that BS in Maryland. They built the ICC which links I-95 and 270. Didn't really talk about it being a toll road until it opened. 4 fucking dollars in rush hour to go from 95 to 270. Yep I will pay it because it's about a 25 minute trip vs. over an hour. If I get on at 495 and exit at Reston Parkway it's $3.50 these days. Crazy. I know other ways to avoid to toll but really a PIA with traffic. Lucky I don't have to drive these tolls often. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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Striker in waiting |
Here in MD, we have very informative signs that tell you "Paid", "Low Balance", or even "Invalid Tag" ($0 balance), as you drive through. You'll get used to it. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
The new Ohio River bridges in Louisville are both ez pass. If you don't have the transponder sticker it's $4 for a car up to around $30 for a semi. I've got the sticker so it's $2. You deposit money in your account in advance and then replenish as needed. I hate the tolls but it has sure cleaned up the traffic. Semis mostly go to a western bypass bridge to dodge the toll. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
The FasTrak system uses signs that say "Do Not Stop" but change to "Valid FasTrak" when the transponder is read. I wonder if those are considered against FHA standards, too? "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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With the high speed license plate readers out there I can't figure out why they need a card, device, etc. to be read. Simply scan the plate, bill the owner, require an active credit card to be on file. Anyone else can simply just pay the tole as has been done for decades in every state. ---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf | |||
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Network Janitor |
Chicago has open road tolls and so used to selecting the I-Pass lane with no gate. Yesterday driving through Indiana and their I-Pass lanes have a gate...well one almost lost the gate. Illinois and Indiana do have lights to tell you toll paid on some gates. A few Sigs and some others | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
 These are exactly what they are getting rid of in PA. Did you even read my post? | |||
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| When you fall, I will be there to catch you -With love, the floor |
That statement is confusing. You stated they are eliminating the green light signal similar to a standard traffic signal. Then you stated they are eliminating the led system that gives a account status. which one is it? | |||
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Political Cynic |
move out west - no toll roads one of the things I absolutely detested the most in New England, and particularly the shithole town where I lived was every entrance and exit to and from the highway in my town was a toll booth fucking leeches if you want to populate a town with toll booths, eliminate the state taxes from the price of gasoline we were royally fucked [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Honky Lips |
I still have my ez pass, I got it in Delaware because it has no fees. The rules didn't state you had to use your home state. | |||
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Ain't it funny how it's free to enter nj but you have to PAY to leave NJ? _________________________ | |||
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| Ol' Jack always says... what the hell. |
When we get to ribbing each other at work over PA vs. NJ I always make sure I throw that in there. ;-) They're going to be replacing the Scudder Falls Bridge (rte 95) and they will be adding tolls to it. | |||
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