Bridge tolls

[nosrednayduj]

Note to self: do not forget to sign up on the bay area fastrak website BEFORE you return your rental car. Because, you can only pay tolls until the future, and so I have just signed up to pay my toll over the weekend, and also tolls by whoever rented the car next until right now. I wrote a complaint to them, so if it happens, hopefully I will not be actually charged.

My real problem was that when I returned the car, I left all documentation in the car, because they were going to email me a receipt (hasn't happened yet), and so I didn't know my license plate number. Turns out, one of the confirmation emails did have my license plate number in it, so I was able to do that without sitting on hold for hours. If I'd realized, I would have paid the toll while sitting in the airport, but somehow I thought I didn't have that information in an email, so I didn't do it until I had an opportunity to sit on hold, but then I found the number after all.

Comments

[wrog]

I'm annoyed that they have yet to adopt a standard protocol for this stuff so that you can just bring a transponder with you that'll work everywhere. (and how hard the rental companies are likely to lobby against such a thing... because, you know, FREEDOM)

[nosrednayduj]

Of course I can't really bring my transponder, my housemates might want to go somewhere on the pike. If I did, I guess I could wrap it in foil to prevent being read during the airport shuttle bus ride home?

[zipperbear]

For my east coast travels, I got a Maryland EZ-Pass, returned it when they wanted to collect a monthly fee, and got a Buffalo-Fort Erie Peace Bridge Authority EZ-Pass, which is international, so they can't easily add a fee. I think it doesn't work in Florida. Obama was supposed to require nation-wide compatibility, but that was derailed.