Mass Pike Electronic Tolling starts 10/28
 

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Expect heavy traffic under the new toll gantries that are along the main line and at the old plazas as demolition starts the same day. There are tunnels under every large plaza that need to get removed so it is long term construction work at each plaza.




Recommendation: Get an EZ Pass transponder as they will save you money - without one, you will pay a surcharge under every toll gantry.

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I've been pinched by speed traps in Western Ma. I wonder if this opens up electronic speed traps and auto tickets in the future.

"without one, you will pay a surcharge under every toll gantry"

Or, if you don't use the toll roads often (or at all), they make you put/prepay at least U$20 on the transponder, and keep the interest.
Lose-lose.

"keep the interest" At the best interest rates around that is between 20-40 cents a year.

I don't get the part about traffic under the new gantries. They are high above the traffic lanes, space every 20 miles or so. You zip under them at whatever speed the traffic is flowing.

Somewhere I saw that they wanted the transponder to be affixed to the car, not hand held. I'm guessing that they want to monitor the whole area under the gantries not just as you enter and ticket folks who are going too fast.

Guess I need to get new velcro since we changed cars.

The all electronic tolls, in addition to the Mass. Pike, also include both inbound and outbound on the Tobin (Mystic River) Bridge and the tunnels to Logan Airport. Previously the bridge and tunnels only collected tolls inbound towards Boston.

J62, I guarantee there are people that will slow way down under them even with the signs that are out there. Best case you never notice the gantries but watch out ahead of you. I was working for the Pike when the Fast Lane (now EZ Pass) was installed and could tell lots of stories about idiotic moves.

emalloy, they work the best when against the windshield so they advise to keep it there but will still work handheld though technically that is a handheld device...

We have a lot of electronic tolling here in South Florida which uses SunPass a more or less "equivalent" to EZ Pass. Our transponders are designed to be hook and looped (Velcro) to the inside of the windshield. Gantries are across travel lanes on Florida's Turnpike as well as at entrance and exit points as well as over Express Lanes on I-95 We can also use the same system for airport garage parking.

Have never seen many, if any issues with traffic slowing down under gantries.

Once people get over the novelty factor, they will zip right through without noticing.

I was delighted to see last week that the Tappan Zee is now booth-free. We got stuck last spring for twenty minutes trying to get onto the MassPike from I-84. It can only get better.

If I want to put on my tinfoil hat, I could fulminate about the loss of privacy, but that has long been gone.

Of course, it allows the government to change prices unnoticeably and at will. But it also makes congestion pricing easier: imagine what the Boston commute would be like if the MassPike were too expensive for trucks during rush hour! (I don't necessarily think this is a good idea, but it's something to think about).

Down here on the I-95 Express Lanes the prices for using them are displayed with illuminated numbers on overhead signs. The prices do change all the time but the driver always knows what the price of using the lane is before using it.