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The Massachusetts Turnpike is informally divided into two sections by MassDOT: the original 123-mile (198 km) "Western Turnpike" extending from the New York state border through the interchange with I-95 and Route 128 at exit 123 in Weston, and the 15-mile (24 km) "Boston Extension" that continues beyond exit 123 through Boston. [4]
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southeastern United States.The E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG) consists of member agencies in several states, which use the same technology and allow travelers to use the same transponder on toll roads throughout the network.
Cash or I-Pass (E-ZPass) $7.20 for two-axles vehicles [44] I-355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway) 30.0 48.3 I-80 – New Lenox: Army Trail Road (CR 11) – Addison: All-electronic toll (I-Pass (E-ZPass) or pay online) Most tolls are $3.60 with cash or $1.80 with I-Pass IL 390 (Elgin-O'Hare Tollway) 9.8 15.8 US 20 – Hanover Park: IL 83 – Bensenville
This system was scrapped and replaced by the current E-ZPass-compatible system in 1998 for the Ted Williams Tunnel and the Massachusetts Turnpike Boston extension and extended to the rest of the turnpike in 1999. When the system was first introduced, AAA gave out to its Western Massachusetts members an orange Fast Lane pass. This pass could be ...
E-ZPass tollbooths, like this one on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, use transponders to bill motorists.. Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a wireless system to automatically collect the usage fee or toll charged to vehicles using toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges, and toll tunnels.
The E-ZPass system was branded as I-Zoom on the Indiana Toll Road from 2007 to 2012. In Massachusetts , the E-ZPass system was branded as Fast Lane between 1998 and 2012. As of 2016, all toll facilities in Massachusetts use open-road tolling, and customers without transponders are charged a higher pay-by-plate rate.
On November 14, 2008, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority voted in favor of a proposed toll hike which would double the toll to $7.00 for non-commercial vehicles (at the time, the toll was $3.50 in the southbound direction only). E-ZPass users would receive a $1.00 discount and commercial vehicles would end up having to pay $9.00.
Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation; Office of Transportation Planning. "Data Resources Section". Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on June 1, 2012. (Includes a road inventory and maps.) Neilbert.com Massachusetts Route Log; The Roads of Massachusetts; Road Signs of Massachusetts