EZ Pass questions
Heading west from MA on route 90 and rte 80 ending in SD wondering where EZ Pass stops working. Called Ez rep and was told. "It works up to the Mississippi river" what happens after the Mississippi ...
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accsys wrote:
If you run into a toll road west of the Mississippi, it is on a different toll system and has its own transponder. Though I am sure there are others, OK, KS, CO, and CA are the only ones I am aware of. The west hasn't seemed to have turned our entire interstate system into a toll road like the northeast has.
The northeast did not turn the Interstate highway system into a toll road. Quite the reverse in fact, the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York State Thruway, Ohio Turnpike, Indiana Toll Road, Chicago Skyway, and Jane Addams Memorial Tollway were all existing toll roads that were designated by the federal government to be part of the then new Interstate Highway system. By adding the existing toll roads to the system, taxpayers were saved the costs of either building parallel toll free roads or buying out the toll road bond holders. In exchange, no federal highway funds could be used by the toll road operators to build or improve their bridges or roadways except for limited standards compliance.
