TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

November/December 2000
Toll Collection Goes High-Tech

Photo: Barrie Rokeach

All seven of the Bay Area's state-owned toll bridges are scheduled to have electronic toll collection in place by the end of 2000. (The Bay Area's only non-state-owned toll bridge, the Golden Gate, installed its own electronic toll collection system in July of 2000.)

To use the system, motorists establish a special FasTrak debit account, and receive a transponder to attach to their windshields. As motorists drive through the toll plaza without stopping, the toll is automatically deducted from their account.

To apply for a FasTrak account and receive a transponder:

call 888.725.8725,
download an application from www.dot.ca.gov/fastrak, or
drop by the FasTrak Service Center
Park N' Shop Shopping Center
1849 Willow Pass Road
Concord.

Funding for the FasTrak project is being allocated to Caltrans by the MTC-run Bay Area Toll Authority from tolls collected on the state-owned bridges.
- Réka Goode

Contents

In This Issue:
Transactions Surveys the Political Landscape
- Poll Vault: Transportation Measures Clear the Bar in Two Bay Area Counties
- Focus: Bay Area Transportation Sales Taxes
  Half-cent taxes mean big bucks for Bay Area transportation -- plus highlights of Measure A and Measure B
- Washington Wrap-Up: Federal Appropriations
  Region fares well in big federal spending bill
- Bay Area State Legislative Delegation
  Fresh faces join Bay Area delegation in Sacramento
- Interview: John Dutra
  A conversation with the new chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee
News Briefs
- Heminger to Head MTC
  Commission picks new chief to lead agency
- Toll Collection Goes High-Tech
  Got transponder? FasTrak comes to Bay Area bridges
- Housing Incentive Program
  MTC gets HIP to housing