Toll road @ Baytown - Page 2

Ed Wright · 03-02-2012, 11:56 PM

Unk, notice how heavily traveled that stretch is? LOL
Gonna take some time to pay for the cameras. I don't remember seeing another vehicle there the two years I've used it.

BobOrme · 03-03-2012, 01:36 AM

E-470, the toll road that runs east of Metro Denver, has camera tolls for those that don't have an in-car toll transponder. Your license plate gets its picture taken at every toll point or exit that has a charge, and they send you a bill in the mail to pay the toll. That rate is 20% more than it would be with the transponder. The drawback with the transponder is they float cash from your bank account to cover the charges before you actually use them - you deposit $35 into the account, and it sits there until you use it. Use it down to a balance (of your money) of $12 (if I remember right), and they automatically take another $35 from your bank account to float until you need to use it.

Charlie Ford · 03-03-2012, 09:31 PM

I talked to several people that used it not knowing that it was now a toll. They will get a bill if they didn't have a toll sticker. I checked the toll and it was $1 for a regular vehicle and $6 for a rig. That's to go about a 1/2 a mile !!! If your coming for the National Event there is an alternate. If your going east, go to the next exit past hwy 99, turn right, go to the light, then another right. From the west, exit before 99, turn south, then a right at the first light. Of course that could all change if they screw with th traffic control.

BobUnkefer · 03-03-2012, 11:15 PM

I taled to Seth Angel today at the track about the toll road & his statement to me was that for the national event Texas was going to monitor the traffice flow and any vehicles that didn't have an EZ pass would NOT be billed but that Texas would bill the track. They NEED to be able to use this stretch of road to facilitate traffic flow in and out of the facility.
Those words from the track manager.

Unk

jwsamuel · 03-04-2012, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by FINESPLINE

To be honest with you ,that is the first I have heard of it. Sounds like it is the first step of BIG BROTHER forcing you to get EZ Pass.That would never go over in the the Northeast as the lawyers would lined up to protect the people who chose ( for whatever their reason ) not to apply for EZ Pass. Question--- Was this road built with public ( federal or state ) funds ?

The Pennsylvania Turnpike has exits that are EZPass only.

Jim

03-02-2012, 11:56 PM	#11
Ed Wright Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sand Springs, OK Posts: 8,132 Likes: 896 Liked 389 Times in 168 Posts	Re: Toll road @ Baytown Unk, notice how heavily traveled that stretch is? LOL Gonna take some time to pay for the cameras. I don't remember seeing another vehicle there the two years I've used it. __________________ Ed Wright 4156 SS/JA

03-03-2012, 01:36 AM	#12
BobOrme Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 25 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Toll road @ Baytown E-470, the toll road that runs east of Metro Denver, has camera tolls for those that don't have an in-car toll transponder. Your license plate gets its picture taken at every toll point or exit that has a charge, and they send you a bill in the mail to pay the toll. That rate is 20% more than it would be with the transponder. The drawback with the transponder is they float cash from your bank account to cover the charges before you actually use them - you deposit $35 into the account, and it sits there until you use it. Use it down to a balance (of your money) of $12 (if I remember right), and they automatically take another $35 from your bank account to float until you need to use it.

03-03-2012, 09:31 PM	#13
Charlie Ford Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 169 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Toll road @ Baytown I talked to several people that used it not knowing that it was now a toll. They will get a bill if they didn't have a toll sticker. I checked the toll and it was $1 for a regular vehicle and $6 for a rig. That's to go about a 1/2 a mile !!! If your coming for the National Event there is an alternate. If your going east, go to the next exit past hwy 99, turn right, go to the light, then another right. From the west, exit before 99, turn south, then a right at the first light. Of course that could all change if they screw with th traffic control.

03-03-2012, 11:15 PM	#14
BobUnkefer Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 465 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Toll road @ Baytown I taled to Seth Angel today at the track about the toll road & his statement to me was that for the national event Texas was going to monitor the traffice flow and any vehicles that didn't have an EZ pass would NOT be billed but that Texas would bill the track. They NEED to be able to use this stretch of road to facilitate traffic flow in and out of the facility. Those words from the track manager. Unk __________________ Bob Unkefer 4409 STK