Got a Colorado toll road bill

[SHRED]

We were driving in Colorado on the E-470 roll road.
I thought for sure they would not be able to run my California plates.

Sure enough...I got a $52.95 bill in the mail.

That is a fucking ripoff OBTW. 😡

[hlthe2b]

1. Yeah... I can't imagine how many get caught up in that and it is very expensive...

There is no way to know how much it is costing you ahead of time, either and heaven help you if you miss your exit.

I use it to go to the airport if I am really pressed for time, but generally, I try to allow enough time to go the long way south to I-70 and then East in order to avoid the $$$. Of course the traffic is the punishment for saving a few bucks.

They are merciless if you don't pay it right away... This is what happens when no one wants to pay for infrastructure, I guess.

[Rorey]

7. And now we're getting the I-25 Gap

I'm probably going to use that a lot. I absolutely hate that stretch between Monument and Castle Rock.

[33taw]

2. Why is it a rip-off? The road is clearly marked as a toll-road, seems like a personal choice.

[SHRED]

8. Prices weren't marked

[hlthe2b]

20. From this Coloradoan, I agree it is a rip-off given NO prices marked. Unless you live/drive Denver

regularly, as even one hell of a lot of Coloradoans don't, it is a shock the first time you get the bill.

I followed the Denver tv news as it was being built, but was still taken by surprise how much it cost on my first bill. It was slightly less after getting a transponder, but who does that just traveling across Colorado?

We are forced into toll roads, but there OUGHT to be signage making it clear what it costs, at least to go the full distance and giving drivers an option to get off.

[33taw]

27. I lived in Boulder for 32 years - moved last year. I chose not to use the tolls because of cost.

Not sure why someone would use something they don’t know the cost of with the hopes of not being tracked down.

[hlthe2b]

28. Maybe they thought the fees would be similarly reasonable to those they'd encountered in their own

states? Maybe they thought there would be a cash payment booth at the end?

Geebus, I have worked/lived/visited nearly every US state... This is not an unreasonable assumption, especially given NO signage to the contrary. I love my state, but we have essentially set up a tourist trap for the monied special interest funding these projects.

[33taw]

32. I found the late payment fees more excessive than the actual toll.

Personally, I would rather see toll booths. Hopefully, he can get some of it waived.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

3. Try Calling

Sometimes if you call and act like you did not know, they'll let you pay whatever the toll was, rather than with the penalty added in. Worth a shot.

[SHRED]

6. No penalty

This is the charge.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

13. Wow!

That's outrageous.

[Rorey]

4. Whoa! How many times did you drive it?

I only use it when I'm going to the airport and am running late, or when there's bad weather to consider. I think my biggest bill was less than $20. It's been awhile.

[SHRED]

5. Just once on our way from Colorado Springs to Loveland

[Rorey]

11. I'm scratching my head

I'll just say I'm sorry that happened to you. If you're in the area again, I'd say just stay on I-25.

[3Hotdogs]

9. Do they have E-Z PASS?

[SHRED]

10. Not sure

It was a one time trip.

[Emoji Guy]

12. We have something similar to EZ-Pass

But it isn't the same system, so yeah.

🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️🏎️ *vroom*

[3Hotdogs]

14. Driving the length of the Pa. Pike also dings you more than $50.00

Prices not marked there either but available on the internet tubes.

[mountain grammy]

15. you're right

It's a fucking ripoff.. No set price, depends on traffic and time of day. what bullshit. Just put up toll booths and charge everyone a buck. I've written my state reps often on this. We'll be known as a rip off state.

[Colorado Liberal]

17. E-470 is fixed price

The toll lanes in the middle of I-25 have fluctuating rates, but E-470 is always the same toll amount. With license plate tolling, one-way from the south end to the north end is $21.80. (With E-Z pass it's $14.25). Still expensive, but there's no way it is >$50 for a single one-way trip.

[mountain grammy]

21. Used it once two years ago

One way from airport. Got a bill for $36. It’s a rip off just like the I70 express lane.

[SHRED]

23. Why was I charged this rate then?

Sept 5th is my latest due date to avoid penalty.

Does the rate depend on the vehicle type?

[hlthe2b]

24. Call them... They should have number & website on the invoice. They have a decent customer service

so, it wouldn't hurt to plead your case for both explanation of charges and a "break" given you were traveling through the state.

[SHRED]

25. I will thanks

[JDC]

16. It is. Just moved back to CO from NH

One round trip to/from DIA cost me more than a month's worth of daily commuter tolls in, out, and around Boston metro.

Total rip off.

I will say, during winter, 470 is clean as a whistle when all other roads are a mess.

[sandensea]

18. Tolls roads are antithetical to the common good.

Indeed, many have become little more than rackets since being privatized by way of "concession."

These are not entry gates to a country club, for God's sake.

[3Hotdogs]

19. N.J. highway authority is also a rip-off sinicure.

The Garden State Parkway was financed with tolls. The tolls were supposed to end when the bonds were paid. So the bonds get paid, --- No. Lets build the Art Center and we need tolls to pay for that. No one asked why we needed the Art Center.

Now, excess tolls are to be used to pay the public employee pension debt.

But it does give a good salary to politicians who get voted out of office or their relatives.

[marble falls]

22. We all need all the arts center we can get, but there's better ways to finance it than the tolls.

[3Hotdogs]

31. But it wasn't about jobs. It was about patronage jobs.

[sandensea]

29. +1

Wherever that money's going, it's not going to maintenance and upkeep of the road itself - that's for sure.

The Garden State Parkway is an excellent example of the need to rescind toll roads generally.

[CanonRay]

26. Oh yeah, they get you every time.

That's a very expensive drive, especially if you are towing. I had the same thing on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

[SHRED]

30. I called them

We were towing a car.
That's why.

No leniency.
They would not budge.
Even though we are out of state and one time.
Fuckers.

[33taw]

33. Sorry that happened.