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Originally Posted by Curious Joel
Our EZ-Passes came today.. I went through the Hooksett tolls at the beginning of rush hour and it was a breeze! It's so nice passing long lines of cars and just zipping through. The only problem is that the speed limit on the EZ Pass lanes in NH is 10 mph, which is too slow, IMO. 15 would be better.. 10 mph is actually hard to do!
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CJ, glad you got yours. Have had ours since about day 2 in NY, early '95, if I remember: orig, transponders and they still work like a charm. Back then, the speed was 5 mph and they had about 1 or 2 EZPass booths on any given bridge/road. They also monitored one's "pass through" speed, and if you ripped through at more than 15-20, they would send a warning or 2, then a ticket and then, cancel your transponder!
Now, pass through speeds have increased as have # of booths at each toll area. We use ours on every trip up from NC, via 95 from Balt to NJ/NY/CT.
One toll booth, at bottom of NJ Tpk where you run up to the Delaware Twin bridges, allows for car to go through at 55, 60+, etc. But, it's a Wide laned plaza...I suspect they keep the speeds down on most toll plazas to keep the idiots from cranking through some very congested toll areas with mixed use booths, eg cash, trucks, tokens, etc.
NEway, Big Brother "could" get the data, but in the meantime, it's a great fooking invention, imo.
BR,md