By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
If only I had been able to snap a picture of what I am about to discuss.
We were driving the other day toward Frisco and exited the Sam Rayburn Tollway to enter the North Dallas Tollway. We drove a few miles and exited that North Dallas thoroughfare. That’s when my wife spotted a sign that read:
Keep moving, we’ll bill you.
That brings me to the point of this brief ditty, which is a comment on the brilliance of the North Texas Tollway Authority.
There once was a time when I detested toll roads. Why? Because so many of them had pay booths that required you to fumble around for the correct amount of money to throw into some machine.
Those days are gone. The NTTA sells stickers you attach to your windshield. When you use the tollway, it snaps a picture of your vehicle and your sticker. Then it deducts the toll you pay from an account you have set up.
Easy, man.
This kind of ease has converted this anti-toll road fanatic into someone who endorses them wholeheartedly.
This blog is brilliant.
I’ve received a statement for tolls in the Dallas area when I didn’t have a stickers. There was no fine included. In Oklahoma, if you go through a toll without a pass, they fine you. I have no problem with paying for toll roads, if they are well kept and it keeps traffic moving better. I don’t like Oklahoma’s system of fining. That’s what actually prompted me to get a Pike Pass for my vehicles.