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Skriven 2013-08-16 17:42:52 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 3033 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: Re: Toll roads
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-=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to Dale Shipp on 31 Jul 13  09:44:24 <=-

 SH> NY: $10 minimum balance with no monthly service charge vs. MD: $25
 SH> minimum balance plus the monthly service charge. I don't think there
 SH> is any problem figuring out which is the better deal. I'm just glad NY
 SH> does not care that I have a NC tagged car and live in NC. I just get to
 SH> keep and use the NY EZ-Pass. :) OTOH, if I travel to Florida, the NC
 SH> Quick Pass now interoperates with the Florida Sun Pass but the EZ-Pass
 SH> is not accepted in Florida yet. It is a good thing I have not had any
 SH> need to go on Florida's turnpike.

So the NY EZ-Pass is accepted some states, and not others...  I take it
that there is some sort of listing you get when you get the pass that
tells you which accept it and which do not...?  I ended up paying a
number of bridge/tunnel tolls on this recent visit to Va Beach (in MD
and VA)... would those have been paid by the pass?

-=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to Nancy Backus on 31 Jul 13  11:00:32 <=-
 SH>> If we should happen to go on the NC toll section, the rates for
 SH>> non-pass holders are higher. In our case, they would scan the plate and
 SH>> send a bill. People have not paid the small, under $1 toll charge and
 SH>> then been hit up with penalties much higher than the original toll. The
 SH>> EZ-Pass is a form of insurance for a case like this.
 NB>> Not sure I totally understand what you are saying here.  If you didn't
 NB>> have the EZ-Pass, you'd be sent a bill?  Or you get sent a bill for NC
 NB>> because it's a NY pass?

 SH> I would get sent a bill if I did not have either an EZ-Pass or Quick
 SH> Pass. The NC road does not have any cash tolls. It is all done by
 SH> scanning a bar code pass, having a transponder, or having the license
 SH> plate scanned and a bill sent. 

Ah.  OK.   So... if I were to drive that, with my NYS plate, and no
pass, I'd be scanned and sent a bill?  (assuming of course, that I
hadn't managed to carefully avoid the toll road... [g])

 SH> As long as I have either EZ-Pass or
 SH> Quick Pass, I would get the lower rate and avoid the possibilites of
 SH> penalties for failure to pay a toll charge bill.

OK, gotcha... :)

 SH> Bringing Toll into the cooking realm:
 SH> (I haven't made this, but it sounds good)
 SH> Title: Toll House Layercake
 SH> Categories: Cakes, Chocolate

Yup... it does look good...  :)

ttyl         neb

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