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Regional Boards => Mid-South => Topic started by: ZLoth on June 22, 2023, 11:37:49 AM

Title: TxTag technology: Why it abandoned an app, has outdated website maps
Post by: ZLoth on June 22, 2023, 11:37:49 AM
From KXAN:

TxTag technology: Why it abandoned an app, has outdated website maps
QuoteMore than a month after KXAN launched a viewer-driven investigation into TxTag, the state-run toll operation owned and operated by the Texas Department of Transportation with history of persistent issues, new concerns are being raised over its technology standards. KXAN discovered some of TxDOT's toll maps are five years out-of-date and a mobile payment app that was in the works in 2018 was quietly abandoned.
FULL ARTICLE HERE (https://markholtz.info/2r9)
Title: Re: TxTag technology: Why it abandoned an app, has outdated website maps
Post by: bwana39 on June 24, 2023, 12:06:09 PM
I think part of the problem is most people with any technological savvy have opted to the more user friendly NTTA TollTag which is 100%+ interoperable.

The media in both Austin and Houston did evaluations on which tag to use and both suggested the TollTag (NTTA). The Houston one came right out and said you probably should not use the EZTag (HCTRA) because of fees and requirements.

The TXTag is not terrible, but it is not the easiest either. Basically CTRMA decided to stop dropping money into it and  TxDOT never did.
Title: Re: TxTag technology: Why it abandoned an app, has outdated website maps
Post by: ZLoth on June 24, 2023, 12:14:27 PM
Quote from: bwana39 on June 24, 2023, 12:06:09 PMI think part of the problem is most people with any technological savvy have opted to the more user friendly NTTA TollTag which is 100%+ interoperable.

Yup, that's what I have here being in the DFW area. The app is pretty good.