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Friday, September 7, 2007

UPDATED and CORRECTED: Fifteen tollway scofflaws owe $688,000

By Bob Reynolds of Metro City Beat

Updated 02:35 p.m., September 14, 2007

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The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has identified 15 individuals that have an average debt of $46,000 for unpaid tolls, administrative fees and related expenses. According to NTTA, legal action is being pursued in each of these cases.

In Harris County, toll road officials have adopted an aggressive policy of having the Constable’s Office stop and arrest scofflaws who have multiple violations.

The state of Virginia may withhold vehicle registrations for individuals that have three or more unpaid violations. At present, there is no Texas law that permits the withholding of vehicle registration renewals or the renewal of an individual’s drivers license for toll violations.

High-dollar NTTA scofflaws

Jessica Woodworth, Dallas $64, 424

Kelly D. Lewis, Frisco 61,905

Cedrick Record, Dallas 53,521

Janie Bean, Irving 50,533

Sonia Gonzales, Dallas 47,834

Daniel W. Burzynski, Dallas 47,144

Raul Martinez, Arlington 46,556

Jerry Boysen, Jr. Garland 43,697

Peggy Y. Martin, Grand Prairie 43,597

Evangelina S. Gonzalez, Dallas 42,617

Christopher E. Rivers IV, Murphy 41,820

Tania L. Hariston, Irving 39,140

Latonya M. Johnson, Dallas 38,365

Joseph P. Jones, Lewisville 34,077

Becca J. Thayer, Plano 33,137

Meantime, the Zip Cash program is losing money as more than $500,000 in fees have gone uncollected.

CBS 11: Zip Cash

CORRECTION:

The above article stated that “there is no Texas law that permits the withholding of vehicle registration renewals or the renewal of an individual’s drivers license for toll violations.” This is in error.

The Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) and the North Texas Toll Road Authority (NTTA) operate under different statutes.

According to D. Page Rander, Communications Coordinator for the HCTRA, the Houston-area agency is allowed to withhold vehicle registration renewals for owners whose vehicles have excessive violations on more than two occasions in a 12-month period. Specifically, the HCTRA may enforce its decisions by:

1. placing a device that prohibits movement of a motor vehicle on the vehicle that is the subject of the decision;

2. imposing an additional fine if the fine for the offense is not paid within a specified time; or

3. refusing to allow the registration of the vehicle.

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John McClelland

John McClelland Verified

What about all the elected officials and NTTA board members who have free toll tags? I wonder what they would really owe.

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rj Anonymous

that's what they get for replacing people (attendants) with machines

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Pavel Lishin

Pavel Lishin Verified

Женщину вынули, автомат засунули.

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Scott Miller

Scott Miller Verified

Pavel Machines are cheaper than people. In most cases.

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Michael McCullough Verified

The bond vote for the Dallas North Tollway was only passed because they promised the voters that collecting tolls would cease when the tollway was paid for. The tollway between LBJ and downtown was paid for long ago yet we still have to pay tolls when driving on that section. When I called them, the excuse they gave was that the tollway had been extended to the north so, in essence, it really wasn't yet paid for.

My response to the tollway doofus was to make the tollway free between LBJ and Dallas per the wording of the the initial bond vote and only charge on the new portions that have not yet been paid for. My suggestion was met with a cool reception.

If I owned a bulldozer (and what man wouldn't want to?), I just might take a drive down the area tollways and raze every tollbooth I see. Yeah, I would spend the rest of my life in prison but Bob Dylan would write songs about me and I would be a Dallas folk hero for hundreds of years.

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Pavel Lishin

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If you carry through with your bulldozer idea, make sure to read up on Marvin's Heemeyer's Killdozer spree.

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