Posted on 10/25/2012 12:58:48 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“He went thru a toll booth lane at 220mph? Holy Carp!”
They aren’t toll booths. They are baasically structures that span across the road with cameras in over the lanes.
That Cadillac is priced at 1.5 million... gas price is probably not an issue. ;>)
Here in El California, if you ain’t doin’ at least 75 you could be run over. Without tolls. Everywhere.
However, the video was great. Loud pipes rule.
Life needs to be longer... there are just too many toys to buy. ;>)
After reading your post, your name and your tag line I clicked on your name.
A buddy of mine once described local traffic as "people here don't drive their cars, they aim them".
Will they take my E-Z Pass?
If the EZ TAG and the EZ PASS are the same thing then you are good to go.
http://www.texastollways.com/austintollroads/english/pay.htm
TxTag is accepted on toll roads statewide. You can get your TxTag online or by phone at 1-888-468-9824.
The Dallas/Fort Worth area TollTag and Houston EZ TAG are also accepted on Austin area toll roads.
I don’t get out on tollroads/interstates any more; just remember the PA Turnpike from many years ago. I’m a side road driver, living here in Farm Country.
Now if Texas would just continue with that bypass all the way to the Oklahoma border. A few years ago my wife and I drove across Texas from the west to just north of San Antonio and then got on the bypass. It was great. Then we got off the bypass north of Austin. Then it was not great. We were in a traffic jam for about fifty miles on I-35 until we got to Waco and my brother’s house. The moral of the story: stay off I-35 on Fridays during football season.
No, E-Z Pass is a mostly northeastern inter-agency pass:
130 is awesome. There is a patch on Highway 35 by Texas University and downtown which is ridiculous. Imagine trying to get into the Lincoln tunnel on Friday at 5:00pm.
This is the bypass. It’s about 40 miles and costs I think 8 bucks but you will get from one side of Austin to the other in less time.
“You need me to test the toll system for you. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Having a blast! Thanks
Texas opened the fastest highway in the nation this weekend, but before a single driver got onto the road, Texan John Hennessey was cruising down the freeway at more than 200 mph.
Hennessey, who specializes in making some of the fastest cars, asked lawmakers if he could test whether the TxTag toll tag system could capture license plates and tags at the new high speeds, according to Jalopnik.
Texas officials gave him the thumbs up to test the system on the open road.
Hennessey topped out his car at 220 mph, and the tag system grabbed his tag and license plate at 180 mph.
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I think I saw that guy. I flipped him off as I had to pass in in the right lane as he was going too slow in the fast lane.
Some people!
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Heads up to any of you all that are going to drive TX 130.
The Houston paper also had an article about feral pigs on that road. Hitting one of those porkers could ruin your day.
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