tt post june 16, 2016 - a

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q.
Assuming you do not have an EZ Pass:

Ohio: $4.50 
Indiana: $10.20
q..

Indiana's regular toll fee has more than doubled in eight years.


Late last decade when I "drove":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/13833/Jr_directions   to DeKalb often, I paid the following regular tolls:

* Ohio = $2.75
* Indiana = $4.15

When Indiana implemented iZoom (renamed E-ZPass), and Ohio implemened E-ZPass, both states increased the costs of their regular toll fees by approximately the same percentage as the savings with E-ZPass.

Kind of like a business increasing the cost of a widget by 20 percent and then offering a coupon for 20 percent off to attract  bargain hunters.

Eventually, I purchased an iZoom to enjoy the "savings" but that damn thing charged me a small monthly fee even if I didn't use the toll road. I don't know if that's still the case with today's E-ZPass. 

If you drive the toll roads many times a year, then an E-ZPass makes sense. But if rarely, then I don't see the point. For me, it became one more bullshit thing to maintain: account, password, credit card, etc.   And that's fine if you are a heavy user of the turnpike. 

But since now I rarely drive the turnpike in either direction because I prefer to go north, I don't own an E-ZPass. F*ck the NSA :)  --that will probably get me added to a no-fly list. i'm investing in pack mules.--