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BOARDS APPROVE NEW TOOL TO HELP CHP IDENTIFY TOLL VIOLATORS
IRVINE, Calif. - November 8, 2007 - The Transportation Corridor Agencies Boards today approved the purchase and installation of violation indicator lights at the mainline toll plazas. Lights will be installed above each FasTrak lane and will flash when vehicles go through a toll plaza without paying. TCA has tested this system at the Catalina View Toll Plaza on the 73 Toll Road and documented a significant decrease in no-plate violations. This tool will increase the ability of CHP officers to identify toll violators that do not have a license plate. Signs will be installed in 52 lanes in the next three months.
The Transportation Corridor Agencies lose about $5 million a year because of violations that cannot be processed, most of those due to vehicles without license plates.
ABOUT TCA
Nearly 300,000 trips are taken on The Toll Roads every weekday. The Toll Roads are operated by the Transportation Corridor Agencies, two joint powers authorities formed by the California state legislature in 1986 to plan, finance, construct, and operate Orange County's 67-mile toll road system. Fifty-one miles of the system are complete, including the San Joaquin Hills (SR-73) Toll Road from Newport Beach to San Juan Capistrano; and the Foothill/Eastern Toll Road system (SR-241, SR- 261, SR-133) from the 91 Freeway to south Orange County. More information: www.thetollroads.com.
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