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Oklahoma Will No Longer Accept Cash on Toll Roads in a Few Years
The future is now and if you don t have a Pike Pass, you will want to get one.
Here in Texas we have the Toll Tag, in Oklahoma they have the Pike Pass. If you have either one, they re accepted on toll roads in both states, in fact it s also good in Kansas as well. If you re someone that pays your tolls in change or bills, that will be going away.
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Starting soon the Kilpatrick Turnpike in the Oklahoma City area will no longer have a toll booth. You will just drive through, if you have a Pike Pass, nothing changes. If you typically pay with change or cash you will receive a bill in the mail for the toll. Tolls are cheaper with the Pike Pass so you may want to get one if you don t have one yet. I got my Toll Tag a few years ago and it s definitely worth it to just keep on driving through those toll booths.
The Kilpatrick Turnpike is now cashless after the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority converted to PlatePay over the weekend.People driving on the Kilpatrick Turnpike will no longer have to carry cash or coins to pay at a toll plaza. Now, they can drive right through and be billed later.Jack Damrill said drivers are still getting used to the new system 24 hours into the cashless tolling on the turnpike. We know some people that tried to drive around the barricades to get into the toll plaza, said Damrill, who is with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. The OTA transitioned to cashless tolling over the weekend to make roads safer. We ve had over 500 accidents in the last six years at the mainline toll plazas. That does not include the side gates and the ramps like MacArthur, May Avenue, Damrill said.One of those accidents included when four people were hurt after an ambulance slammed into a toll booth last year on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike in Newcastle. Safety is at the forefront when you
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