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VDOT: No E-ZPass fee hearings planned
Updated: Monday, 07 May 2012, 8:13 AM EDT
Published : Saturday, 05 May 2012, 1:04 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Department of Transportation says it isn't planning any public hearings on the proposed $1 monthly E-ZPass transponder fee.
The agency is proposing the fee to help support expansion of the E-ZPass system on toll roads as accounts are expected to double in the next several years. It wants to start charging the fee July 1.
But the Richmond-Times Dispatch reports that the department says state law doesn't require hearings on the issue.
About 900,000 E-ZPass transponders are in service in Virginia. The program costs VDOT $10 million a year to operate and paid for by charging transaction fees to the toll facilities.
The agency says the proposed fee should generate $13.8 million a year over the course of five years.
But users have sharply criticized the proposal.
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