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E-Z pass system coming for toll points in Kentucky Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority votes to join electronic toll consortium E-ZPass Group By Chuck Wolfe, Office of Public Affairs, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet E-ZPass transponders usable in 15 other states FRANKFORT, Kentucky (July 29, 2015) - The Kentucky Public Transportation Infrastructure Authority (KPTIA) today voted to join the E-ZPass Group, which operates a common electronic toll payment program in 15 states. With an E-ZPass transponder, tolls can automatically be paid on any toll road or bridge operated by any member agency of the E-ZPass Group. KPTIA is joining for benefit of future users of the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. KPTIA is financing the Downtown Crossing portion of the project - a new bridge to carry Interstate 65 northbound traffic between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana, and conversion of the existing I-65 John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge to carry southbound traffic. Indiana is building the other half of the project - the East End Crossing between Prospect, Kentucky, and Utica, Indiana. Toll revenue will help finance all three crossings, and an E-ZPass transponder can be used for all three. Tolling of the bridges will commence in late 2016 and will be free-flow, all-electronic - no toll plazas, no coin buckets and no waiting in line. "Electronic toll collection is the most cost-effective system available to motorists for paying for the use of tolled highways and bridges," said Kentucky Transportation Secretary Mike Hancock, who also is KPTIA chairman. "All E-ZPass toll facilities offer transponders that are interoperable - meaning that a single transponder will work for any and all E-ZPass systems." With all-electronic tolling, traffic flows freely, unimpeded, through tolling points. Vehicles passing through tolling gantries are monitored in two ways: onboard electronic transponders that send signals to monitors and video cameras that record license plates from overhead gantries. The lowest rates will be charged to motorists using a transponder, which allows for tolls to be automatically debited from an established account. Higher rates - because of higher administrative costs - will be charged for motorists who must be tracked by video camera identification of their license plates. E-ZPass Group has 26 member agencies in 15 states, including five of the seven states bordering Kentucky: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia. Toll roads in those states include the Illinois Tollway system, West Virginia Turnpike, Ohio Turnpike, Indiana Toll Road, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Future users of the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges who opt against purchasing an E-ZPass transponder still can realize the low-cost benefits of automatic electronic payment with a free decal-sticker transponder that would only work on the Bridges Project. This story was posted on 2015-07-30 06:54:50
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