Horror stories of Bay Area bridge plate-reader glitches

[ZLoth]

From SF Gate:

Horror stories of Bay Area bridge plate-reader glitches

Jessica Musicar was shocked when she got a letter from a collections agency telling her she owed $75 for failure to pay a toll evasion ticket on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

She was surprised in part because she didn't recall receiving the initial notice of violation, but also because she lives in Montana - and hadn't been to the Bay Area in more than six years.

Heidi Allingham had a similar experience more than a thousand miles away. She was at her San Diego home when she received a letter saying she owed $7 for an unpaid toll on the Golden Gate Bridge.

She thought it was a scam at first and almost threw the letter away. Turns out, she was cited despite not having crossed a Bay Area bridge in more than a decade.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

[KEK Inc.]

There was a similar instance with SR-520's photo tolling.  Some guy in Vancouver, WA, who hasn't been to Seattle since the tolling started got a toll bill all because someone with the same numbered plates from Colorado crossed the bridge, and the system failed to make the distinction of the out-of-state plate. 

While photo-tolling or enforcement might be cheaper in the short-term, it doesn't always work accurately.

This is why I never turn right on red light photo-enforced intersections, even if I fully stop.