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E-ZPass News

  • TransCore’s Tolling System Goes Lives with PA Turnpike’s Open Road Tolling

    Wric.com - January 21, 2025 - TransCore, a leader in advanced tolling and traffic management solutions, today announced the successful phase one go-live of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s (PA Turnpike) statewide conversion to open road tolling (ORT). With its groundbreaking cashless Infinity roadside tolling system now live on the eastern part of the PA Turnpike, TransCore’s system will also go live across western Pennsylvania when the PA Turnpike expands ORT in 2027.

    To improve roadway safety, efficiency, and convenience, the PA Turnpike partnered with TransCore to relocate tolling points from interchange locations to overhead gantries installed between turnpike entry and exit points. The newly deployed Infinity system provides electronic tolling at highway speeds with a combination of RFID technology to read E-ZPass transponders and advanced in-lane sensors to identify, classify, and process Toll By Plate transactions. Read more >>

  • NY petition targeting E-ZPass late fees and congestion pricing gains thousands of backers: ‘Legal extortion’

    NYPost.com - January 19, 2025 - A New York driver who says he’s fed up with E-ZPass tolls has launched an online petition to change the system, including congestion pricing — and has already garnered thousands of backers.

    Some of the people who signed the petition, which has amassed more than 7,000 signatures since last week, claim they’ve fallen into debt over such things as E-ZPass’s late fees — racking up more than $100,000 in penalties alone from the e-tolling system. Read more >>

  • West Virginia Parkways Authority enhances turnpike tolling with advanced technology

    Cittimagazine.co.uk - January 16, 2025 - The West Virginia Parkways Authority (WVPA) has announced the introduction of significant tolling system upgrades across the West Virginia Turnpike, aiming to improve convenience and efficiency for drivers.

    The advancements include a new toll-by-plate payment option, updated E-ZPass infrastructure and integrated in-lane digital signage at all four toll plazas.

    The enhancements are part of WVPA’s ongoing commitment to improving roadway operations and traveller experience. Read more >>

  • Traffic into NYC drops 7.5% in first week of new congestion toll

    Syracuse.com - January 14, 2025 - NEW YORK (AP) — A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City’s heavily-gridlocked streets in its first week of operation, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state’s transit authority.

    Known as “congestion pricing,” the first-in-the-nation program launched on Jan. 5, collecting $9 from most passenger cars entering the city below Central Park during peak hours and higher fees on trucks and other vehicles. In the days since, total traffic in the tolling zone has dropped by 7.5% — or roughly 43,000 cars per day — compared to the equivalent period last year, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said. Read more >>

  • The latest 'smishing' scam came to my phone. How you can spot it and protect yourself

    Patriotledger.com - January 14, 2025 - My turn to receive the latest fraudulent "smishing" scam arrived at 9:27 a.m. Sunday when a text message appeared on my iPhone.

    It told me that I owed money for unpaid tolls on state highways. I do drive a lot, sometimes using toll roads, so I might have found it possibly credible but I'd been forewarned about this one.

    A colleague, Scott Bowdridge, of Walpole, had warned me three days earlier. I was just a bit late on the apparent robo messaging circuit. This EZDriveMass scam has been especially active here since the start of January, according to digital coach Grace Buscher, of Quincy. It was first reported in Massachusetts last June by the state. Read more >>

  • NYC congestion pricing turns Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into toll trap that hits drivers with $9 charge — even if they’re not heading downtown

    NYPost.com - January 7, 2025 - Congestion pricing seems to have turned the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge from a historically toll-free span into a trap that hammers unsuspecting drivers with the new $9 charge — even if they’re not heading into the toll zone.

    The scheme primarily affects motorists on the lower level of the bridge exiting at East 60th Street — where the congestion pricing zone starts — onto First Avenue, which runs uptown. Read more >>