OT Florida toll road question

This is not as bad as I thought it was. (I din't like paying $70 in advance not knowing if I'd actually be on *any* tollroads.

But one can buy a Sunpass Mini for only $5, and you have to deposit $10, which I guess you never lose but never get back either.

I just have to find a store that sells them before I go on a toll road.

So they hint that there could be one, but don't actually name SunPass or SunPass Mini. Or that the transponders some people have in the northeast will also work. E-Z Pass, etc.

Actuallly 9 tolls because in Florda it's only $10 charge per toll. Also there is the toll amount.

I think I saw signs and took the fork that had no tolls.

Florida's toll roads joined the EZ Pass network a few months ago, so any one you pick up anywhere in the country will work there.

Note this is a recent change, so you might see older notes claiming you need a specific Florida one.

Maybe that's why they didn't mention it. I was looking at a Thrifty car rental page and it had "deals", links to other pages, and one expired Dec 31, another a month before that, and one in 2020!!, Yes 2020. It's too hard to update all the expired webpages.

Thanks. I occasionally use a toll road or bridge covered by EZ-pass, once or twice a year**, but since I'm in my own car, not a rental, they find out my address and send me a bill. There is no way to pay when you're there. The last time, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, for fear I'd forget later on, I tried to pay the fee after I got iirc an email but before I got the bill. Even though I had the citation number and my license plate, I had to wait 6 or 8 weeks until the bill came in the mail.

So i suppose if I get a SunPass Mini, it will be nice that I'll be able to use it even in my own car on those rare oocasions, the Bay Bridge to the eastern shore of Md., the Delaware Memorial Bridge (in case anyone would forget that there is Delaware)

Bring your EZ pass. No need to stick it, just lay it on the dash.

Alas, I don't have one.

You never use the tunnel? Never go to DC? I live 1000 miles away and pay tolls around Baltimore a couple of times a year.

The EZ pass is more useful than the Sun pass so may be a good idea to get one since it works just about everywhere.

I live about 180^ opposite the tunnel, so whether I want to go N or S, it's never part of the route.

There are no tolls to go to DC. Once when traffic on I-95 was heavy I took MD-200 to get to I-270, and that was a toll road for about 18 miles, and it might have saved some time but it took me miles out of the way. I took it partly to see what it was like.

When I go to NY or NJ there are 2 highway tolls and two bridge toll2. Bridge tolls are only in one direction. I'd get a discount with a ez-pass and maybe with a SundPass.

Too late for tomorrow. I could have thought of this in advance, but didn't untiil the rental acknowledgement email showed up and referred to it. However, I called Publix supermarket closest to my brother and they have SunPasses. Thrify says the maxiumum it charges is $90, so if you are renting for a month, or 3, or 6, it could be a bargain.

SunPass is probably going to be phased out now that EZ-Pass has become valid in most if not all of FL's toll roads. SunPass I believe, is only usable in FL whereas EZ-Pass is usable in many states, especially in the Eastern states. When you obtain an EZ-Pass, it's free although you need to put a $25 deposit into your EZ-Pass account. Even if you don't use it, there are no account maintenance fees. Just get an EZ-Pass, don't mount it on your car's windshield. If you rent a car, make sure the car is of the same class vehicle as your personal car and at the time of rental, log on to your ez-pass account and add the rental car to your ez-pass account. Remember when you return the rental car to take your EZ-Pass with you and immediately contact EZ-Pass and remove the rental car from your EZ-Pass account. Lots of info on the web, both on the MD EZ-Pass web site and on other reputable sites. Oh, and there's a Drive EZMD app in both the Apple App store and in the Google Play android app store for whichever type of cell phone you have. Have a safe drive!