What's the deal on yankee toll roads ?

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Ok, I busted out the scanner for ya'll. Tell me where on this bill it says anything about part of the $57 is for paying late ? Yes, there is a ridiculous administration fee, but even if I had paid the same day, it wouldn't be less than $57.
If you had paid at the toll booth it would have been $7.25. So your premise is wrong. The extra $50 is the fee for blowing through the toll booth.
 

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If you had paid at the toll booth it would have been $7.25. So your premise is wrong. The extra $50 is the fee for blowing through the toll booth.

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How are toll roads/bridges communist?

Maybe "communist" the wrong word. Because there is no income redistribution going on here. Perhaps the better word is something along the lines of "robbery". In a state like mine people pay state income taxes, gas taxes, and an ad valorem on vehicle purchases. Adding tolls on something that is supposed to be paid for with state/federal gov tax revenues seems redundant.

BTW this thread has been kept alive way longer than I thought. :clap:
 
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Meh. If they didn't have tolls, they would just jack up some other tax to compensate. If anything, tolls are more "fair," because if you don't use the road, you don't pay for it.
 

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fortunately US toll roads and bridges can't find me in Canada, so I essentially don't have to pay.

I've never gotten a notice show up at my door. If it ever did, i would pay.
 

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If you had paid at the toll booth it would have been $7.25. So your premise is wrong. The extra $50 is the fee for blowing through the toll booth.

This is probably true to some degree. The toll booths do have a fast lane and this is the lane I always "chose". I mean who wants to stop 30 times on the same highway and break out their piggy bank. Most states just take a picture and send you a bill for the toll. This is what I had expected to happen. That admin fee is just flat out wrong though, sometimes you get trapped in the fast lane due to traffic and have no choice.
 

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It's called planning ahead. Know you have a toll booth in a mile? Begin inching over.

To many people drive on autopilot. And when their exit comes up have to jump from fast lane across multiple lanes to make that exit/turn that they just can't miss and have to cut off people.

Plan ahead
 

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This is probably true to some degree. The toll booths do have a fast lane and this is the lane I always "chose". I mean who wants to stop 30 times on the same highway and break out their piggy bank. Most states just take a picture and send you a bill for the toll. This is what I had expected to happen. That admin fee is just flat out wrong though, sometimes you get trapped in the fast lane due to traffic and have no choice.

:thud:

those lanes clearly say "EZ Pass Only" and you don't stop 30 times.

be prepared and know what's to happen, don't expect based on no information.
 

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Also. Calling them and explaining you couldn't get over on one of the tolls, may get the fee waived. But going past that many, sometimes both ways, you knew what you were doing and their fee's are stuck
 

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