I actually like the whole "scan the plate and send a bill" thing, because when there is a lot of traffic, toll booths can cause miles and miles of delays.
Plus you don't have to worry about digging out cash (in the old day), a card or your EZ Pass. And you have some time to sell your blood before the bill comes <g>.
I need for these States to tell me how much it's going to cost BEFORE I decide to get on the toll roads...but sometimes it's split second decision once we get the road signs, you know?
Yes, yes, YES! I'm new-ish to Google Maps...the way it was showing me how to go warned me there would be tolls but not how much. I don't really mind paying my "fair" share...but $40 for a 2 hour drive? In a state I don't live in, so I don't feel the need to fund the road repairs or apparently public transportation (Google told me some of the tolls do that...and possibly pay for state troopers' salaries)? No thank you.
I have an EZ-Pass, so I got the bill in one lump sum on Monday for a trip I took at the end of May.
It may have taken them 6 weeks to get my bill to me but I only have 10 days to pay it. That sounds fair (not).
The bigger ticket item for ME were the EZ Pass lanes around Tyson's Corner in DC out to...uh, where my sister lives. I forget the town/exit. Now, sister says had we stayed on the regular highway we would have saved 'about $50' but dear sweet lord, the TRAFFIC! that $50 was well worth shaving at least an hour of bumper-to-bumper traffic off our ride.
Ah yes...the traffic. It took us what seemed like forever to get around the DC area on our trip home.
