Flipping license plate and other tricks cars use to illegally dodge tolls

The MTA loses tens of thousands dollars in toll revenue every day to motorists whose license plates are illegally obscured.

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[elibk]

Keep raising the tolls on citizens who already pay taxes to the state, but never fix highways & bridges till it’s too late

[bigpapi]

the money being lost was gonna be spent on bullshit anyway

[Sage]

I remember when toll plazas were cheaper and advertised as temporary. This kind of thing isn't going to stop.

[GoldenSte]

So we pay taxes for all of that and on top of that they charge a fee for using the roads we already payed for. Someone has to do something about it some how .

[BarracudaBoy]

they always say that the tolls are temporary, but after the project is paid for, they continue to fleece the citizens. More power to those that aren't sheep and fight the system!

[anthonyreid]

You pay state, Federal, county tax. Then you pay toll tax. Sounds like double taxation we had with the British.

[A_World_Full_of_Lies]

The MTA makes over 2 billion dollars a year?? Let that sink in for a minute.

[mj-ze]

What about that MTA supervisor who did this and bragged about it, he cheated the system over 100k, paid back 10k, got to keep his job and his car. The team that came up with cashless tolls should be accountable for not thinking ahead or fixing the problem. That 1% number is outrageous, I see someone with obscured plates almost every time I drive. Most of them only cover the back to block speeding/red light cameras.

[JayZJay]

Toll pricing is crazy but the service is bad and violence is increasing on buses and trains. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Woke]

I love it. I want a flip plate. Sick of paying 16 dollars to get into NY.

[CognitiveDiscussion]

2 billion dollars a year yet the tolls go up every few years. Make it make sense NYC

[Northstar]

Well we had an clearly readable plate. But their EZ Pass system didn’t read the EZ Pass and sent us a $65 fine. Then trying to get ahold of anyone from New York or New Jersey is like an act of Congress.

[theynotcatchingamongus]

Literally the toll prices in New York are ridiculous. Who wanna pay $10 just to cross a stupid bridge to the city? Meanwhile in Florida, it’s less than $1.

[dandan]

Maybe if you stop spiking up the toll you wouldn’t be having citizens cheating the toll system. I live in Indianapolis and have not passed by any toll in Indy

[aceboyramon]

Great tip
If you are gonna travel where tolls are going to be present get a plate flipper it just flips your plate to a fake one and when your far enough away flip it back

[kingofuseddurablecars.ls]

People need to stop paying period. Let's get the crime back up since they have time for this BS

[joeldriver]

All roads and highways should be free to travel on as our taxes should pay for the upkeep. To me tollroads are nothing but another unfair tax placed on all of us. We have a tollroad here in Oklahoma that goes from OKC to Tulsa (Turner turnpike) that has been paid for fully for decades but they keep running the same scam and now it's a $10 round trip. Everybody should do this license plate trick. Good for them.

[bushikciwa]

Could care less . Good on them for slipping through . Cus does all the money they get a day go to fixing the roads? No.

[peanutdog]

The only trick is that you're paying $20 to cross the Verrazano. That bridge has been bought and paid for it. They're a bunch of crooks

[hexagonmagnetics]

People don’t mind paying if it’s worth it! 😂 But when the city is robbing you, you rob them back!