TRENTON, NJ. – Assemblyman Kevin J. Rooney (R) has introduced a package of pro-commuter bills protecting New Jersey’s E-ZPass customers who use New York’s bridges and tunnels from being overcharged.
The legislation is in response to a recent AAA study that found drivers who purchased E-ZPass tags from out of state agencies are being charged the cash rate instead of the discount rate at New York bridges and tunnels operated by the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Between 2012 and 2016, of the 92 million out-of-towners who didn’t receive the discount rate, 70 million were New Jersey drivers.
“One of the primary reasons E-ZPass was created was to offer drivers discounted rates,” said Rooney (R-Bergen). “We now find that certain drivers are given preferential treatment – the only reason for which is that their E-ZPass was issued by a New York agency. These bills are an effort to level the playing field for our commuters and ensure the integrity of the E-ZPass system.”
I have a New York EasyPass.
I don’t get a discount on the Garden State Parkway.
Does NJ EasyPass give discounts on the GSP?
Good to see Stable Boy working it in Trenton….
E-ZPass is ‘supposed’ to be a consortium. Pretty sad that among the states, they don’t pass along discounts which benefit them in the long run. Maybe a few “cash only” toll day protests will remind them in NY of the worse traffic problems they had before E-ZPass was introduced.
It is ludicrous that all passes bought in NY or NJ do not apply to both. Gimme a break.