A video obtained by FOX 5 News shows a car going through the RFK Bridge cashless toll using a license plate that flips to a blank slate when the car approaches the E-ZPass reader. The video shows the plate flipping back once the car clears the toll plaza.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
That's some James Bond shit right there
NEW YORK - The bridges and tunnels run by the MTA are busy, and they generate crucial revenue. Over $2 billion a year comes into the agency, which uses the funds to keep its mass transit infrastructure up-to-date. But some drivers have been cheating the system.
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I could split lanes in Texas on my Harley if no one was close enough to rat my out. Toll roads are bullshit. As if the state doesn’t make enough on gasoline taxes and vehicle registration and inspections.
ReplyDeleteDude. Yer harshing their graft! --nines
DeleteI wonder if I can buy one of those on Amazon?
ReplyDeleteSnitches get stitches...
ReplyDeleteTolls are BS. The state uses OUR tax dollars to build a bridge, road, tunnel, etc., then charges us again to use it. They then use our additional tax dollars to pay the people that collect these tolls. Nothing but a money making scam.
ReplyDeleteIn Florida, when they built the turnpike, they told us they were only going to charge a toll in order to payoff the bond used to build it. After that there would be no toll. That was 50 years ago now and the bond has been paid off for decades. Once the govt comes up with a revenue scheme, it NEVER gets rid of it.
That's pretty much the story with most toll roads. We used to say that after they collected enough to pay for the road, they continued to collect tolls to build more toll booths.
DeleteThey did the same in Illinois even though the law stated that the Tollway Commission had a “sunset” date. Their excuse was that they needed the tolls to repair the road that they had collected increased tolls to keep up. Just wanted to keep their patronage jobs.
DeleteWhere can I get one of those things that blanks out the license plate?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, \
I'd use it for fun, of course. As an amusement, yeah, that's the ticket....
The picture at the link of the 'defaced' Pennsylvania plate looks pretty much like my PA plate after I had it a couple years. Pennsylvania must buy their paint at the Dollar Store.
ReplyDeleteMy ideal license plate cover would be some sort of optical distortion lens. Like one of those pictures that looks normal when viewed straight on, but shows a different image when viewed from an angle. That would cause grief for most license plate cameras since they are viewing from an angle, but wouldn't be noticed by a police officer following you in traffic.
ReplyDeleteYou can find those if you search. "Illegal" in some states, but very effective against the revenue generation cameras. I used one in Oregon for quite awhile. Shame my memory does not come up with a name.
Delete18 wheeler over the GW, $ 85.00 , now ask me why your stuff is so expensive
ReplyDeleteNow ask me why the road is so torn up.
DeleteWhen I was still driving a tractor trailer, (I retired in 2002, before EZ Pass really became the norm)I used to see them actually loading sacks of money into armored cars by forklift, at the George Washington Bridge. Rates have probably quadrupled since then. When it was cash only at all the bridges, it was not unusual to see stacks of money at the toll booths just before change of shift.
ReplyDeleteCA finally went to printed temporary plates after toll dodgers stole millions by never replacing a blank temp plate with their real one.
ReplyDeleteTolls are theft. Put me on the jury.
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