GPS and Ezpass

Not correct. The Dulles Access Road is a FREE road and has no E-ZPass or other toll collection.

The Dulles TOLL Road is parallel to the Dulles Access Road and is available to all users, with or without an E-ZPass at all tolling locations.

Annual Fee? There is no need to pay an annual fee with E-ZPass. Try another issuer.

I got my first ezpass form the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) and it was free of an annual fee. ezpass was a relatively new thing at the time. They decided to charge a monthly $1 fee somewhere down the line, so $12 a year. I dropped their ezpass and got one from the PA Turnpike Commission for an annual $3 fee.

Both places offered a ezpass toll discount but only if you have your ezpass through them. I use the PA turnpike more than the bridges so the $3 fee is recouped in no time whereas the $12 for the bridges wouldn't be at all.

Also the PA turnpike ezpass gives my motorcycle an additional discount, the DRPA gave motorcycles a discount if you paid cash, the ezpass didn't do that.

One of the toll areas I use is at the end of a vacation destination road and non ezpass lanes can be extremely backed up, so even without the discount it's well worth the $3 annual fee to zip on by that long line.

But based on the picture in the OP link, you kind of have to be a chump to not see well in advance that there are several non-EZ Pass lanes from which to choose.

Getting a fine in this situation is a tiny bit like all the drivers turning on to railroad tracks, or off roads that end due to closure. Situational awareness FTW!!

Now The People's Republic of Maryland does have an EZ Pass only road (the Inter-County Connector) and I could maybe see the GPS snafu in this instance. But not really.

Such an alert would be useful.

Toll roads arent that bad at all. If you get on, get off the first one. Use the toll road exclusion as stated

The picture shown in the article is misleading. It shows a nearby interchange which has both cash and Ezpass lanes. The actual exit referred to in the article has Ezpass only and NO cash lanes.

The exit is clearly marked "Ezpass only" but apparently, many motorists are used to seeing both cash and Ezpass options at these interchanges.

If you are happy, that is great. But PA Turnpike and DRPA are not the only options with their fees.

You can get free E-ZPass without monthly/annual fees from Massachusetts, New York Thruway/MTA, and Virginia. You will still get the same discounts on PA Turnpike.

Soon tolls will be on all major thoroughfares and more and more exits (and entrances) will be EZpass only. I see more states entering into reciprocity agreements as many states use the term EZpass. A windfall for the car rental companies as "their" EZpass included in cars is expensive. There you pay the cash toll rate as well as a $24.95 (and up depending on car rental company) convenience fee for EACH DAY you use it.

The rental car companies charge you the fee for EZ Pass each day you have the car whether or not you go through a toll booth.

I thought $15 was way too much... $24.95 is bad....

Unlikely you will see tolls on existing Interstates that were funded with highway trust fund money, unless there is a major change in legislation (not likely). There was a pilot program passed to do that (Missouri, I-95 in VA, I-95 in NC) but at least one of those states backed down after being awarded the pilot.