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EZ TAG is an electronic toll collection system in Houston, Texas, United States, that allows motorists to pay tolls without stopping at toll booths. Motorists with the tags are allowed to use lanes reserved exclusively for them on all Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) roads. As of late 2003, the EZ TAG can also be used on all lanes of ...
HCTRA came into being in September 1983 after Harris County voters approved a $900 million bond referendum by a 7–3 margin to release up to $900 million in bonds to create two toll roads – the Hardy Toll Road and the Sam Houston Tollway – to improve the regional mobility and reduce traffic congestion in the Greater Houston area, an area known for rapid population growth.
In 2003, all Greater Houston area toll-roads operated by Harris County Toll Road Authority and Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority (), and all Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area toll-roads operated by North Texas Tollway Authority became compatible with TxTag, with the exception of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field airport parking, where NTTA's TollTag is the only ...
16.1. Brighton Boulevard in Denver. Chambers Road in Aurora. $1.50~$4.50 [ 32] All-electronic toll; allows ExpressToll and license plate toll; HOV-3+ must have an ExpressToll transponder which they can slide to the HOV indicator to ride free; motorcycles and RTD buses are toll-free [ 33] US 36 (Express Lanes) 16.0.
Park. Rec. The Westpark Tollway, also Fort Bend Westpark Tollway, is a controlled-access toll road in Texas, serving western Houston and Harris County, and northeastern Fort Bend County. Construction on the facility began in 2001 and portions of the road were opened to traffic in May 2004. Construction of the roadway was completed in August 2005.
Cash collection (in the form of exact change) continued on the HCTRA maintained segment, the Fort Bend Toll Road until May 2017. [6] The only valid payments on both segments of the toll road include HCTRA's EZ TAG , NTTA 's TollTag , TxDOT's TxTAG and two out-of-state toll tags: K-TAG from Kansas (since May 2017) [ 7 ] and Pikepass from ...
FM/RM. Park. Rec. The Hardy Toll Road is a controlled-access toll road in the Greater Houston area of the U.S. state of Texas, maintained by the Harris County Toll Road Authority. The route runs from Interstate 610 near central Houston to Interstate 45 just south of the Harris – Montgomery county line. The road generally parallels Interstate 45.
Rec. There are approximately 25 current toll roads in the state of Texas. [ 1] Toll roads are more common in Texas than in many other U.S. states, since the relatively low revenues from the state's gasoline tax limits highway planners' means to fund the construction and operation of highways. [ 2]