All for $2.60

Yes for $2.60 I got four trips on a tool road in Dallas. That is not the news, but how I had to learn about it is.

Living in Florida I am use to toll roads. We have the famous Florida Turnpike, the Turnpike extension that leads you into the Florida Keys and in Orlando they have numerous toll roads.

But not like they have in Texas. Here is what happened. I was driving downs the highway and a sign would say”Last chance to get off before toll”, I had no reason to get off so I just kept going. As I traveled further I went under something metal, what looked like metal bridges over the road.

I never gave it second thought. Shortly later it said” End of Toll Road”. There were no tool booths, you didn’t have to slow down, and so I didn’t give it second thought.

Will I was in Texas I didn’t give the toll road much thought other than to think they must not care about out state people or rent a cars paying their the tolls.

Will I was wrong. Yesterday about a week after we got home from Texas I got a letter for the North Texas Toll Way Authority. It was a bill for $2.60. It showed me that I had been on the tool road four times at 65 cents a trip.


It also showed a photo of the back of my rent a car with a readable view of the license plate. To let you know that they really knew the plate number they printed it in big bolt letters and numbers. I guess that was to reinforce that they knew the car you where in.

Just think what happened here. There was photo recognition of the license plate. Two they had to get from the tiling agency who owned the car. Three in my case it was a rent a car company. Fourth they had to get who rented the car that was using the toll road at that time, which in this case was me.

I asked my son about this toll system and he said it was developed by Raytheon. I always thought Raytheon was a defense contractor. But now I remember that they make many kinds of electronic equipment.

This is Doctor Spock kind of stuff. No toll booths, no need for money at the time of driving on the tool road, no need to slow down and get a bill through mail later.
Now for the low tech Stuff,

I’ll send the check by slow mail.

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