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Originally Posted by ZAMIRZ
I have the FasTrak, and what's annoying is it's $30/month regardless of whether you use it or not. Once you do use it, that $30/month goes toward your toll-road charges, which is fine.
But unless you're a regular commuter or need to use it on like 7 or 8 days at peak times, you're basically paying in without taking full advantage of the pass. I'm going to be moving out of downtown LA and to Santa Monica next month, and will subsequently cancel mine and send the transponder back. But I know there will come a time where I'm sitting in traffic and would have gladly paid the toll to use the FasTrak lanes.
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It's not really $30/mo, they just load themselves $30 at a time until it's used and then reload, again and again, when it gets close to $10. You submit CC info at signup.
I occasionally do contract work for Santa Margarita Ford and often test drive their customers cars on the 241 toll road. It's the only time I make use of a FasTrak transponder. I'm not there all that often and if you don't do $25 in toll charges in a billing month, they ding you $2 per month for the privilege of owning the practically now mandatory transponder. If you don't use the toll road, it's $2/mo. If you rack up $24.50, it's $26.50.
Yes, it's a business write-off, but it still irks me a little that there's a monthly fee when not having a transponder is made much more difficult. Impossible for me as I'm not usually driving my car on the toll road.