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Don Shula and Snapper Creek convert to ORT- Don Shula, Snapper Creek expressways to get electronic toll collection
- Cashless Tolls Begin Saturday On Don Shula Expwy
- Don Shula Expressway Tolls Go Cashless
- Why toll financing is not double taxation
- Cash tolls on Miami-Dade expressways will
soon be electronic - Casetas de peaje de Miami-Dade serán totalmente electrónicas
- SunPass alternative unveiled
- Quitarán casetas de peaje
- Six South Florida expressways to collect all tolls electronically
- Se acerca el fin del pago con efectivo en carreteras
- Toll roads take cashless route
- Miami Dade's move to all-electronic cashless tolling
- Change? Not anymore… the operational challenges of converting to all-electronic
Don Shula and Snapper Creek convert to ORT
July 15th, 2010
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Don Shula, Snapper Creek expressways to get electronic toll collection
July 15th, 2010
Two more expressways in Miami-Dade, Don Shula and Snapper Creek, turn to electronic toll collection this weekend.
Read moreCashless Tolls Begin Saturday On Don Shula Expwy
July 15th, 2010
Drivers who travel on the Don Shula Expressway and SR 878/Snapper Creek Expressway will be zapped with new, cashless tolls beginning Saturday.
Read moreDon Shula Expressway Tolls Go Cashless
July 12th, 2010
Remember VCRs, portable CD players and phone booths? Miami-Dade County residents can soon addold-fashioned tolling to that list of things from the past.
Read moreWhy toll financing is not double taxation
May 10th, 2010
As a nation, we have come to realize that there are no free roads. We must pay for our roads -- whether by tolls, taxes, developer's fees, or other mechanisms.
Read moreCash tolls on Miami-Dade expressways will soon be electronic
March 23rd, 2010
The toll plaza on the Gratigny Parkway is expected to close June 7 to become the first South Florida toll road to stop accepting cash and begin collecting all tolls electronically. A little more than a month later, likely in July, the Don Shula Expressway toll plaza in South Miami-Dade will close. That same day, the Snapper Creek Expressway, which links the Don Shula to U.S. 1, will charge tolls for the first time. Both roadways will collect tolls electronically.
Read moreCasetas de peaje de Miami-Dade serán totalmente electrónicas
March 23rd, 2010
La Dirección de Carreteras de Miami-Dade informó que la caseta de peaje en la autopista Gratigny Parkway está fijada para cerrarse el próximo 7 de junio, lo que la convertirá en la primera caseta del sur de la Florida que dejará de aceptar dinero en efectivo, y comenzará a recaudarlo de forma electrónica. Poco más de un mes más tarde, probablemente en julio, la caseta de peaje del Don Shula Expressway en el sur de Miami-Dade también concluirá sus funciones. Ese mismo día, el Snapper Creek Expressway, que conecta al Don Shula con la carretera U.S. 1, cobrará peaje por primera vez. Ambas vías recaudarán el dinero electrónicamente.
Read moreSunPass alternative unveiled
November 6th, 2009
As the end of the toll plaza era approaches, those who want -- or need -- to continue paying cash may be wondering how they will be able to use the roads once coins and paper bills are no longer accepted. Toll road managers have developed an alternative -- the Toll-by-Plate program. It does not require people to sign up for SunPass, an electronic device motorists attach to their windshields to pre-pay tolls. The new program is scheduled to start in two phases, beginning next year at the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority and in 2011 on the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike.
Read moreQuitarán casetas de peaje
November 6th, 2009
En la batalla contra la congestión del tránsito, los funcionarios que operan las principales carreteras de peaje en el sur de la Florida proyectan demoler todas las casetas de peaje en la zona. Pero también tienen un plan para aquellos conductores que deseen seguir pagando en efectivo. El nuevo programa, que se llamará Peaje por Placa (Toll-by-Plate), tendrá dos fases. En el 2010 se implementará en las rutas de la Autoridad de Carreteras de Miami-Dade; y en el 2011 en la extensión a Homestead del sistema del Turnpike de la Florida.
Read moreSix South Florida expressways to collect all tolls electronically
April 20th, 2009
The era of asking for directions and seeing a human face in toll booths on major South Florida expressways is about to end. In June or July, toll collectors on the Gratigny Parkway will begin handing out fliers announcing they will soon stop taking cash and start ''open-road tolling'' -- a new system under which tolls will be electronically collected. The Gratigny will be the first of six of Miami-Dade's most heavily traveled expressways to start collecting tolls electronically either through SunPass transponders or video-billing -- a system in which a vehicle's tags are photographed and the owner sent a bill.
Read moreSe acerca el fin del pago con efectivo en carreteras
April 20th, 2009
La era de preguntar cómo llegar a algún lugar y ver un rostro humano en las estaciones de peaje de las principales autopistas del sur de la Florida está a punto de acabar. En junio o julio los cobradores de peaje de Gratigny Parkway comenzarán a distribuir volantes anunciado que pronto no se aceptará efectivo y el peaje sólo se podrá pagar electrónicamente. Gratigny será la primera de las seis autopistas más transitadas de Miami-Dade que implemente el sistema, que usará aparatos SunPass o videofacturas, que fotografían la placa del vehículo y le envía la factura al propietario.
Read moreToll roads take cashless route
July 28th, 2008
The American tollbooth is sliding toward oblivion as the nation moves toward pay-to-drive highways that don't accept cash. Highway agencies increasingly are embracing high-speed "open-road tolling" in which drivers don't have to slow down or stop at a tollbooth or gates, and often no cash is involved. Instead, overhead antennae "read" windshield-mounted transponders in the cars beneath and charge drivers' pre-paid accounts. Overhead cameras capture license plates, and drivers without transponders get a bill in the mail.
Read moreMiami Dade's move to all-electronic cashless tolling
July 23rd, 2008
Miami Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) is expected to begin formal procurement in early September of the toll systems needed to dispense with cash toll collection and go all-electronic. Along with North Texas Tollway Authority (Dallas TX) MDX has set 2012 as the target year for having all-electronic tolling (AET) complete, and cash collection permanently closed down. These will be the first two large networks in the US to make the conversion from a mix of electronic tolling (ET) and cash collection to AET/cashless.
Read moreChange? Not anymore… the operational challenges of converting to all-electronic
Andy Warhol once said, "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." This attitude will help take the Miami-Dade Expressway into a new era of efficiency and improved customer service. The Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) operates and maintains five of the most critical east-west expressways in Miami-Dade County, totaling 67.8 miles. Of those five, only four are tolled with a total of just six tolling points. Each expressway is tolled using an 'open-barrier system', with distinct tolling points that allow for numerous free movements on the system.
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