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quote:Originally posted by Chuck and Carol
We don't use the thruway that often. By the time it goes on the credit card and I heard there's also a monthly fee involved, what do you save but time?
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For a personal use account you do have to register a Credit Card, when you open the account $ 25.00 is charged against your card, and credited to your account, each time you use the E-Z Pass the amount is deducted from the account balance, once the balance falls below a certain level it's replenished with another $ 25.00 from the credit card. You're only charged for actual usage, there is no monthly fee.
You can get up to 4 E-Z Passes on one account (so you only have $ 25.00 tied up for 4 vehicles). E-Z can be used in much of the Northeast, for highway tolls, some bridge tolls, and even airport parking in the NYC area. This year you can even use it for parking at the New York State Fair.
My original motivation for getting one was I usually travel to Ocean City, Maryland in the summertime, and I go through Delaware to get there, on one stretch of the interstate Delaware had 2 toll booths where you had to stop, and pay $ 1.00, in the summertime the weekend shore traffic is bumper to bumper, and the lines at the toll booth can backup forever, but if you had an E-Z Pass you can just keep driving without stopping in the through lane (it will read your E-Z Pass at 65 miles per hour), that fact alone made it worth it.
JP