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Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 01:15 am: | 
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quote:Merely purchasing a valid ez-pass means that a minimum of three irresponsible (and possibly corrupt) organizations now have confidential personal information about you that may include your SSN, credit card numbers, and/or bank account information.
Wrong. Only one party, which is your states EZpass branch, in NY it is the Thruway Authority. Also, all you need to sign up is a single credit card and an address. No SSN, no bank accounts, nothing that can ruin your life.
quote:Since the states rarely if ever manage their toll operations themselves a private business is doing it on their behalf.
Proof please, I cannot find any information online to support or deny your claim.
quote:Also, ez-pass purchasing is usually done at retail merchants who can then copy the information from your application,
Retail merchants sell the EZpass? I've never heard of that, I thought you had to call or go online. But since you are afraid of buying anything at a retail store I bet you hand made everything you own.
quote:All it takes is one unscrupulous person in the chain of information to steal your data and it could takes years and many dollars to get it straightened out.
What are they going to do, buy a TV on your credit card? That is most likely to happen from using a card at a restaurant, not from an online transaction. Even if your card was compromised, all it takes is a quick phone call to straighten everything out. You work with computers too, I thought you would know about that!
quote: Not to mention the toll collectors that are put out of work by automating the system.
Sounds like the same union crap that was getting belched when the use of robots in manufacturing came around. If they can find a toll collector that can collect my dollar without me dropping below 55MPH, then so be it. Till then, I'll let the machine handle it.
quote:RFID is a vile intrusive technology that is extremely big-brother friendly.
Yea, its so hard to put the EZpass in the RFID shielding bag that they come with. If you are that worried about RFID I hope you don't have a drivers licence, or buy any thing from any major retail store.
quote:And the ultimate insult is that many jurisdictions are beginning to penalize those of us who refuse to put ourselves at risk. They are beginning to charge us higher toll rates for not "getting with the program".
Actually you got it backwards, they have always offered discounts for EZpass users, not just jacking the prices of cash customers. The only one being put at risk is you, for now you have to put yourself in the danger of being hit during the cluster**** that is involved with tollbooths.
I bet you aren't on Facebook either.  |
Jlnance
| | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 - 04:09 pm: |
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I just put the ezpass in my jacket pocket. It's a lot easier than mounting it on the bike. |
Tiltcylinder
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 12:17 pm: |
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I have mine mounted directly to the windscreen, using the heavy velcro that comes with it. Doesn't move and has only hit the ground when I try to remove it to hand to a toll booth operator(Ocasionaly bridges and such, fail to read ANY motorcycle tags in upstate NY.. I don't know why and neither do the folks in the booth>. Had my first one more than ten years, and it started to give me trouble by not getting read some times, which got worse over the course of a year.. Local ez-pass office replaced and it's been trouble free. Now have it penciled in on the long range calendar to ask for a new one every 7 years, as I believe there is a battery inside there.
I got one as soon as the state made them available for cycles... definitely one of my 'must haves'.
Have a tank bag, with clear map pocket and the horizontal position seems to cause more 'failures to read'; the near vertical position on the windscreen seems to work better. |
Captain_lou
| | Posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 - 09:00 pm: |
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Google JJ Cycle Pass. They make a holder that fastens to handle bars and never fails. I travel a lot on my Uly and it works in Illinois and all the West coast states. Comes in black or clear (if you want it unnoticed when not being used. |
Wbrisett
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 12:35 pm: |
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Not a big toll fan myself. Before the days of EZ Pass on the Garden State Parkway (circa 1998), I can remember having to find the booth that sold the tokens so we could get an extra couple of tokens instead of tossing in quarters.
Texas, Austin in particular, is now being flooded with toll roads (thanks Rick Perry ... see he has done something for Texans). These roads have an ez pass and they are now experimenting with various types of tags. Most of which folks who use them on bikes seem to think work OK. I can't vouch for any of them since I almost never use the toll roads around here (nice thing about living in an area most of your life, you know the back roads).
Froggy, having lived for a short time in the NE, I will say that things are vastly different there than in the west where toll roads are not the norm, but the exception (although in certain areas that is changing). In Texas for example, while operated by Texas Department of Transportation, profits go back to the organization who built the roads, which in Texas is a corporation out of Spain. Some states run tolls until the road is paid for (Kentucky), others like NY, NJ, etc. use the money to continue maintaining the roads and bridges. Anyhow, Tempst's claim about private organizations running the toll systems has not been my experience. However, where the actual money goes afterwards is a bit more troublesome at times (at least to me). |
Hooper
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:53 am: |
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What I hate is being near-captive to the use of these roads. I chuck $3.50 out the window (via EZ-Pass) every day I go to work because the only reasonable way to get there is via a airports authority-owned toll road. Yes, I could take secondary roads, but that would add many miles and 33% more time. It burns me up. And MAN, they cover it with RADAR like a shooting gallery (not with "airport authority" police, of course, but with local cops and highway patrol)...it's a cash cow in multiple ways.
Then, this airport-owned toll road extends past the business districts and into the exurbs where it becomes a foreign-owned toll road (and much more pricey) used by long-distance commuters.
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Captain_lou
| | Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 05:19 pm: |
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I don't know what I was thinking when I said the JJ Cycle Pass worked on the West coast. It probably does, but going East is where you really need it. Lots of tolls roads. Stopping to reach for change while all around you cars and trucks are motoring through is not a comfortable situation. |
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