Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Toll booths should be outlawed
All the better to track you with, my dear.
And if you don’t have a credit card and you only operate in cash?
And if I don’t live in Maryland but am just passing through?
Welcome to The Matrix.
Illinois is almost there.
Where are the cameras placed to take a shot of the plate ? Most likely it is to the front of the car as it passes through the toll lane. If you are from a state such as SC, you only have a plate on the back of your car. So all these cams would get is a picture of a vanity plate or nothing at all.
How do they collect the out-of-state license pic tolls? Send them to collection agencies if not paid? What’s to stop me from completely ignoring them? Have no concerns about my “credit score” - don’t use credit and haven’t for years. I imagine with in-state they can block the vehicle registration or suspend the DL - I wonder if that can be done inter-state?
Go to youtube: ez pass tracking
>>save the state money, reduce accidents at toll plazas, and reduce CO2 emissions as less fuel is being burned
Or just use the gas tax to build highways and stop using drivers as a cashbox to fund other spending in the state.
Save money (on staff at booths)
Reduce accidents
Reduce pollution/congestion
Win
Win
Win
Reduce the size of government
WIN!!!
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts [emphases added]; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
Note that Constitution-ignoring FDR made the unconstitutional (imo) executive order to confiscate gold.
Executive Order 6102
Drivers from other states who don’t have EZpass will pay 1.5 times the regular rate for video toll.
Consider - Congress passed a law in 2012 requiring toll collection transponder interoperability nationwide meaning a driver with a Florida Sunpass toll transponder could be used for EZpass and a New Jersey resident with an EZpass could use it in Florida. The law required the different systems to be compatible and collect tolls for each other by October 2016. It is national transponder interoperability does not exist. Sunpass, for example has installed the technology to read EZpass but EZ pass has not adapted its system to be interoperable with other readers. If Maryland proceeds with its plan for cashless toll payments, by generating more revenue through video toll collection it has an incentive not to make its EZPass readers compatible with transponders from other systems.
The construction of the interstate highway system was funded 90% by the federal government and 10% by the states. To force out of state drivers without EZ passes to pay a toll 50% higher than Maryland residents with EZ passes seems grossly unfair for a highway constructed primarily with funds collected nationally by the federal government.
In the early days of the interstate highway system some states included their existing toll roads in the system with the agreement the tolls would be removed when the revenue bonds sold by the state to fund the road were paid off. This was done for example on the Petersburg Turnpike, I95 south of Richmond, where tolls were lifted in 1992 when the last bonds were paid off. Unfortunately the federal government has given exceptions to some states who like Maryland continue to collect tolls. Perhaps the answer is to simply mandate the tolls be lifted from all interstate highways.
Unless they can prove illegal status with a criminal record while having been deported multiple time. They the can ride for free.
Does the constitution have anything to say on this issue?
I know when my daughter drove my car across the country a couple of years ago I got bills from a few states I though were unjust because they included a fine for not paying the toll. I just chalked the few dollars up to her belief that dad is the source of all wealth, but now it looks like she may not have even had the choice to pay in cash.
First they convert the cash toll roads to electronic pay, then they convert ALL THE ROADS to electronic pay. It will be so easy to create toll roads, every community will insist their roads are turned into money mills.
This is going to get bad. Question is, is it going to get bad as fast as everything else is getting bad?
Glad I’m going to be senile or dead soon.
Except for this:
This means that drivers from other states who use Maryland roads will be forced to pay more if they don’t have an E-ZPass by the time of the transition.
Seems to me this is a violation of the interstate commerce clause. Having outstate travelers paying the same rate as instate is defensible. Paying higher rates is not.
I'm sure we'll see a lawsuit.
Good. The fewer Unionized government “workers” the better.