On Monday, Bay Area Toll Authority announced that a new all-electronic toll collection system will start after midnight New Yearâs Eve at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges.
Customer who pay their tolls with a FasTrak tag or a license-plate account will see no difference in their statements, but drivers who are not enrolled in either program will also receive a monthly invoice for all toll bridge crossings from Friday on.
After cash toll collection was suspended on March 21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, these drivers were sent individual toll notices for each bridge crossing.
The all-electronic toll collection system being introduced in 2021 at the Bay Area s seven state-owned toll bridges is similar to the system used at the Golden Gate Bridge, which adopted all-electronic tolling in 2013. Automated, high-speed cameras will capture images of license plates, and the FasTrak customer service center will process the images and then mail an invoice each month to the address at which the vehicle is registered with the DMV.
The debut of all-electronic tolling and monthly invoicing at the state-owned bridges will mark the return of toll payment rules that were temporarily suspended in March.
Drivers who do not have FasTrak or a License Plate Account and who do not use the online one-time payment option will be required to return invoices with payment within 30 days. Those who neglect to return payment within 30 days will receive a Notice of Toll Evasion with a $25 penalty for each toll crossing.
New Monthly Toll Invoices for Bay Area Bridges Start In January With Penalties for Late Payment
FasTrak Luddites beware! Starting at midnight on New Year s Eve, drivers without FasTrak tags or existing License Plate Accounts with the Bay Area Toll Authority will begin receiving monthly invoices for toll crossings on seven Bay Area bridges, as part of a new all-electronic toll collection system.
The Bay Area Toll Authority announced this week that Friday will begin the next era in tolls at the Bay, Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond, and San Mateo bridges.
Cash tolls were suspended back in March for the safety of toll workers who also lost their jobs and the pandemic has served to accelerate a phasing-out of toll-takers that was supposed to be spread over five years. But those without established toll accounts or FasTrak fobs have been getting one-off invoices generated using photos of license plates for each toll crossing since the spring. This is
New Year Brings New Toll Collection System to Bay Area Bridges
Monthly Invoices to Supplement FasTrak®, Replace Individual Notices
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) today announced that the start of 2021 also will herald the launch of a new all-electronic toll collection system at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges. While bridge customers who pay their tolls with a FasTrak
® toll tag or a License Plate Account will see no difference in their statements, patrons who are not enrolled in one of these programs will receive a monthly invoice for all toll bridge crossings made after midnight on New Year s Eve. Following the suspension of cash toll collection in March of this year, these customers have received individual toll notices for each crossing.
Changes coming to Bay Area toll bridges Friday
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SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA - JULY 25: Traffic backs up at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza along Interstate 80 on July 25, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
OAKLAND, Calif. - On Monday, Bay Area Toll Authority announced that a new all-electronic toll collection system will start after midnight New Year s Eve at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges.
Customer who pay their tolls with a FasTrak tag or a license-plate account will see no difference in their statements, but drivers who are not enrolled in either program will also receive a monthly invoice for all toll bridge crossings from Friday on.