NJ Parkway scam

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NJ Parkway Scam

I am writing to you to express my dismay of your unbelievable, shameful practices!

This change of moving non ez-pass toll booths off road is a shameful attempt to collect money in violation fees from drivers who- have no intention of not paying the due toll- but are unaware of having to practically exit to pay the toll.

I, for one have been driving for ca. 14 years – never once did I not pay the toll, I never once tried to scam anyone. I use the parkway mainly to not get lost, so obviously I will not exit nor look for an exit before my destination. Sometimes I use the parkway to get to my destination more quickly – but either way, I basically drive the same stretch of road and have been for years.

Now with this Scam NJ is running, all of a sudden I receive one violation after another. Understandably I was concerned and upset, because I would never violate the law nor did I but I knew I had no way to prove it, because even when I go to a “maned” booth I never thought to ask for a receipt.

So I called EZ-pass and since it is hard to argue with my cars picture captured – I tried to find out what they exactly accuse me of.

And wouldn’t you know, it is not that my change didn’t register or any of the things I thought might have happened – why NO!! – it was just decided to remove the toll booths all together and just expect people to know they have to go“off road” to pay and then get back on.

The phone rep. had to explain to me where this took place and that there is a sign posted 2 miles ahead – but I never saw it, not that day in question nor when I went back to check! Probably because I wasn’t on the Parkway long enough – who knows, maybe it was just because I was driving along the same road I’d been on many times before and there was nothing out of the ordinary going on. And as for the ez-pass designated lane, usually, for years, one had plenty of time to change lanes once the toll booth came into view.

Now, had I done something wrong, I would pay the imposed fine. But since I did nothing wrong. I refuse to pay! Out of principle.

And after calling the Violations Bureau four times to date, judging by some of the comments the reps made, it seems I am by far not the only one with this problem.

I paid the 70cents. However I refuse to pay the “Administrative Fee”. I will not be scammed by
Government or Criminal. For it is obvious those changes were made to have people fall into this trap and thus collect enormous amounts in unjust fees.

Please have the courtesy to reply, and remove this disgraceful blemish from my record. And make an actual effort to inform people of these changes. Educate us drivers instead of trapping us!

Thank you.

Source: http://www.planetfeedback.com/state+of+new+jersey+turnpike+authority/other/nj+parkway+scam/302173