![]() ![]() This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. If you’ve been wrongly charged for tolls, let us know, email: (c) 2022 Sunbeam Television. Now EZ Pass insiders tells us, because of our inquires a drive is on to fix the system, but they warn it will be complicated and expensive. He said for optimal coverage, hed like to have nine new firefighters on staff. On Wednesday morning, Fire Chief Leonard Howard said the three new positions are a good start. Lorraine: “It’s frustrating because they’re leaving it up to me to fix a problem that they have.” BRATTLEBORO The Select Board on Tuesday night approved allocating 350,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to hire three new firefighters. See parking lots and garages and compare prices on the E-ZPass MA Service Center. That makes it the driver’s responsibility, which is not so E-Z. Find out where to park near E-ZPass MA Service Center and book a space. Mass DOT also refused to go on camera, and told us, “it encourages every customer to check their accounts on a regular basis to make sure all charges are accurate and true.” I can’t get it fixed.”ĮZ pass officials refuse to go on camera, but sources tell us they’re well aware it happens, and admit it’s “very inconvenient” and “frustrating.” Catholic Charities founded in 1903 remains among the largest and well respected social service agency with programs and offices located in Boston and the greater Boston area. A quick guide on how to correctly mount or install an EZ-Pass transponder on your windshield.The 18 states where EZ-Pass is applicable in the United States a. His tolls also belong to an apportioned plate. A sign on bonus of up to 1,500 to 3,000 is payable after 90 days of employment. Tom: “The tolls aren’t my responsibility. ![]() Tom from Needham gets charges for tolls in New Jersey, $77 so far. Her tolls belonged to an apportioned plate, which is a plate used by some businesses. Linda from Grafton got $270 worth of tolls from Maryland and New York. When a special plate gets an electronic toll, cameras snap a photo of it and then it gets looked up systemwide so the driver can be charged.īut we found the EZ pass shared files do not provide “plate type” information! So if commercial 1234 for instance goes through, passenger 1234 could get the bill. For example there could be Mass passenger 1234, but also commercial 1234, apportioned 1234, Cape and Island 1234, Red Sox, Purple Heart and more. That’s because Massachusetts, one of the 16 states connected in the EZ pass system, uses the same numbers on different plates. Here’s how, though the new signs for the electronic tolling system say “no transponder, no problem” there actually is a problem. Patrick Pisani, Car Owner: “I don’t understand how this could be happening.” We tracked down the owner Patrick Pisani of Bellingham. Members establish an E-ZPass account with Mass DOT using a credit card with an initial balance of 20.00 per transponder. All customers are urged to update their payment and vehicle information to avoid receiving invoices in the mail. Here’s the photo of the car that went through the toll that day, the same numbers, but look: it’s a Purple Heart plate. All electronic tolling begins effective October 27, 2021. Keeping information on where someone drives over a long period of time is also problematic, she added.Lorraine: “It’s not a lot of money but I’m not paying someone else’s toll.” “If MassDOT has hundreds of examples of people contesting six-year and six-month transponder data and it’s an important business purpose for them to keep it, seven years might make sense.”Ĭrockford said she’s also not sure why speed data is necessary. “The seven-year period for images of cars and license plates, it’s unclear to me why they need to keep this information for so long,” Crockford said. Kade Crockford, the director of the Technology for Liberty Program for the ACLU of Massachusetts, said any information gathered by electronic tolling should be kept only as long as it is useful to collect tolls. The new measures have raised concerns for privacy advocates. Cars without an E-ZPass will have the plate information stored for seven years. Under the approved recommendations, the state will be able to keep travel data stored electronically for up to seven years and videos of cars driving under the gantries for 180 days.
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