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Old 11-05-2018, 07:30 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Hardy is tag only now. No cash.

TxTag is the choice. Free tag. HCTRA EZTag is $20 for the tag.
Only cash lanes left in Texas are on the original Sam Houston Tollway from SW Houston to Bush Airport.

You can get TxTags at the AAA Texas offices around the state. I got mine almost 10 years ago during a promotion that waived the activation fee.

Sadly no Pay by Mail, except on the TxDot owned & operated portions (between I-10 W and I-69 N) of SH 99.
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Old 11-05-2018, 08:16 PM
 
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I thought that was a cool benefit. They should look into it again. At the time, the COH said the costs were too high to justify keeping it. That was several years ago. Maybe now, with the number of Tag users exponentially higher, and most electronic processing costs down, it could be viable again.

Our condo parking garage uses the tags to open the gates when you drive up. Both TxTag and EZTag work.
That's super cool! Do you give them the tag number or something? Obviously nonresidents with tags shouldn't be able to get in. That is neat!

In California the tags have a little slider on them from 1 to 3 for the number of people in your car so you don't get charged when you carpool. This is of course widely abused! But they do have highway patrol looking out for cheaters. Im sure this loses millions in revenue.
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Old 11-06-2018, 04:58 AM
 
Location: Houston/Brenham
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Our condo parking garage uses the tags to open the gates when you drive up. Both TxTag and EZTag work.
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That's super cool! Do you give them the tag number or something? Obviously nonresidents with tags shouldn't be able to get in. That is neat!
Front desk employees register it for you (one time process). They drive your car around so it's in front of the reader over the garage entrance, while another employee is at the front desk, in front of the computer. When the reader gets a good signal on your tag, the front desk guy can register it to your car, and tell the computer to open for that tag from now on.

Everything is computerized, and frankly, quite amazing to an OF like me.
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Old 11-06-2018, 11:20 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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In California the tags have a little slider on them from 1 to 3 for the number of people in your car so you don't get charged when you carpool. This is of course widely abused! But they do have highway patrol looking out for cheaters. Im sure this loses millions in revenue.
I've seen a picture of that toll tag. What's the point of the slider anyway? They should have designed it differently.

The modern HCTRA, NTTA, and TxTag are windshield stickers with a circuit board that deactivates when the adhesive is separated from the tag. That tag is more like the I-Passes still in circulation around Chicagoland (and the ancient HCTRA tags).
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