Relax....it's only E-ZPass.
Know what that is?
When it first became available, I thought it was some sort of stool softener....
Those of us with E-ZPass look on with schadenfreude as we go speeding past the lines of cash-paying drivers....but:
1. "AAA Urges Immediate End to Discriminatory Tolling Practice by E-ZPass
2. ...end the discriminatory business practice of charging higher toll rates to drivers that make out-of-state toll tag purchases,...
3. ... There is no reason for one authority to charge some E-ZPass holders a higher toll, except, unfortunately in our estimation, to take advantage of drivers who may be from out-of-state,...."
AAA Urges Immediate End to Discriminatory Tolling Practice by E-ZPass
4. "The E-ZPass electronic toll reading system used by 24 tolling agencies in 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest is able to differentiate where motorists bought their passes and apply varying prices.
5. Motorists traveling the full length of the New Jersey Turnpike during off-peak hours, for example, pay $10.40 if they bought their E-ZPass from the turnpike's operators. If they bought their E-ZPass from another tolling authority, or if they're paying cash, the charge is $13.85.
6. Rhode Island residents with an E-ZPass can cross the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, which spans part of the Narragansett Bay, for 83 cents, but out-of-state passenger car drivers with E-ZPass pay $4 ($2 per axle), the same as drivers paying cash.
7. New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority charges motorists who bought their E-ZPasses locally $4.80 to cross the Robert F. Kennedy, Bronx-Whitestone and Throgs Neck bridges and use the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels. Motorists with transponders purchased elsewhere, or who pay cash, are charged $6.50.
8. Similar arrangements exist in New Hampshire, Maine and West Virginia,...."
Some sites charge higher tolls to out-of-towners ? USATODAY.com
9. "Is E-ZPass helping states violate the Constitution?.... two new lawsuits filed in federal courts say the practice is unconstitutional..... this differential pricing violates the constitutional provisions that prohibit burdens on interstate commerce and promise equal treatment under the law.
10. .... courts have required states to meet tough tests if they are to favor their residents. They must, for instance, justify the favoritism by showing a valid local purpose unrelated to economic protectionism, and demonstrate that there are no alternatives less discriminatory."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02ezpass.html?_r=0
Where the Heck is Holder when ya' need him????
Shouldn't he be passing out automatic weapons to E-ZPass owners????
Know what that is?
When it first became available, I thought it was some sort of stool softener....
Those of us with E-ZPass look on with schadenfreude as we go speeding past the lines of cash-paying drivers....but:
1. "AAA Urges Immediate End to Discriminatory Tolling Practice by E-ZPass
2. ...end the discriminatory business practice of charging higher toll rates to drivers that make out-of-state toll tag purchases,...
3. ... There is no reason for one authority to charge some E-ZPass holders a higher toll, except, unfortunately in our estimation, to take advantage of drivers who may be from out-of-state,...."
AAA Urges Immediate End to Discriminatory Tolling Practice by E-ZPass
4. "The E-ZPass electronic toll reading system used by 24 tolling agencies in 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest is able to differentiate where motorists bought their passes and apply varying prices.
5. Motorists traveling the full length of the New Jersey Turnpike during off-peak hours, for example, pay $10.40 if they bought their E-ZPass from the turnpike's operators. If they bought their E-ZPass from another tolling authority, or if they're paying cash, the charge is $13.85.
6. Rhode Island residents with an E-ZPass can cross the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, which spans part of the Narragansett Bay, for 83 cents, but out-of-state passenger car drivers with E-ZPass pay $4 ($2 per axle), the same as drivers paying cash.
7. New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority charges motorists who bought their E-ZPasses locally $4.80 to cross the Robert F. Kennedy, Bronx-Whitestone and Throgs Neck bridges and use the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels. Motorists with transponders purchased elsewhere, or who pay cash, are charged $6.50.
8. Similar arrangements exist in New Hampshire, Maine and West Virginia,...."
Some sites charge higher tolls to out-of-towners ? USATODAY.com
9. "Is E-ZPass helping states violate the Constitution?.... two new lawsuits filed in federal courts say the practice is unconstitutional..... this differential pricing violates the constitutional provisions that prohibit burdens on interstate commerce and promise equal treatment under the law.
10. .... courts have required states to meet tough tests if they are to favor their residents. They must, for instance, justify the favoritism by showing a valid local purpose unrelated to economic protectionism, and demonstrate that there are no alternatives less discriminatory."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02ezpass.html?_r=0
Where the Heck is Holder when ya' need him????
Shouldn't he be passing out automatic weapons to E-ZPass owners????
