Hornfans help! Toll Violation-Harris count

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So I'm traveling from Corpus through Houston (first time in a long time) and I make a mistake of getting on the tollway realize my mistake that i don't have an EZtag and exit, do a u-turn and go straight back to where i made the wrong turn for a total of 4 miles round trip (took the very first exit I could). There was NOWHERE to pay a live person and i would have been glad to!
So fast forward one week and i get a notice in the mail for $36.75 for a damn wrong turn!
Rant(**** HOUSTON and unmanned toll ways! I'll never drive on or near that POS again) Rant over.
So I realize i could just pay the total but sure seems like a lot for 4 miles and a mistake, what are my options beside that?
 
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If I were you, I would contact the toll commission and discuss it, before I paid anything. I'm sure you will have to pay, but it should not be more than the actual toll would be, plus a SMALL fee. I used 130, east of Austin, without a tag, and got a bill in the mail, about 40% more than the going rate, which I understand. I can't imagine what you described being worth $37.00.











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I'll be traveling from San Antonio to Dallas next Friday, and would like to avoid afternoon rush hour traffic in Austin, by using 130. Do you have to have a tag, to do so?
 
No tag is necessary. If you don't have one, the scanners will take a photo of your plate and they will bill you.

I did his before I got my tag.


I love the toll roads.
 
there was a $33 admin fee, that's why it was so high.

Texanne-did they only bill you for the amount you would have paid?
 
just pay it. if you talk to someone in Harris Co., they'll probably give you inaccurate info and you'll end up with a notice to appear.
 
Interesting.

The Austin paper has been trying to get the local toll authority to release the names of the top toll scofflaws here. Supposedly, the #1 scofflaw has run up $40,000 in tolls & penalties without payin' nuthin'....and said "authorities" are giving him & them amnesty.

WTF?

A lot of locals say they'll just stop paying their toll accounts if that happens.

Exerpts from Ben Wear's column today in the AAS:

GETTING THERE: BEN WEAR

Giving toll evaders ink might spur payment
Commissioner, newspaper on same page, but TxDOT says releasing offenders' names is against state law.
Monday, August 10, 2009

Ted Houghton is OK with carrots. But the Texas Transportation Commission member really has a thing for sticks.

We know this from a commission meeting in late July, when the board was discussing a possible amnesty for people who have run up tolls on Texas Department of Transportation roads and then passed on repeated pleas to pay up. There are 140,000 such folks who owe late tolls and fees for TxDOT's five tollways — four of which are in Central Texas — and the agency was suggesting letting them square up by paying the tolls and about 10 percent of the fees.

"Have you thought about publishing the names in the newspaper if they don't pay?" Houghton suggested. "People don't like their names in the paper."

"We could certainly do that," said Phil Russell, a TxDOT executive whose dominion includes toll roads.

Actually, the Statesman had hoped to get such a list and report it when news surfaced of the amnesty idea (which the commission approved July 30). TxDOT's lawyers said, no, state law makes information about toll road users confidential. So we asked only for amounts owed by the top 10 violators, sans names. TxDOT said no again, referring the request to the Texas attorney general.

That matter is pending. But, oddly, TxDOT officials during the commission meeting volunteered the information that the top violator (unnamed) had rung up $40,000 in tolls and fees. Perhaps the Statesman didn't ask nicely enough.
 
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