Cashless Tolling coming soon to Kansas Turnpike

[route56]

There's a big thread on the Oklahoma Turnpikes going to a cashless system. It's time to give their northern neighbor some love.

https://fox4kc.com/news/kansas-news/with-cashless-system-say-goodbye-to-toll-booths-on-kansas-turnpike-soon/

As a regular commuter on the Turnpike between Lawrence and Topeka, I have seen the new gantries for the Cashless tolling service go up.

* There are gantries for both directions on each side of Exit 202. The westbound gantries on the east side of Exit 202 also have a new Exit arrow sign for the exit on the Gantry. How do I know it's a new sign: It's in FHWA Series E(M).

* There's an eastbound gantry just east of the Topeka Service Plaza, and a westbound gantry right at the west end of the Topeka Service Plaza.

* The new gatries have streetlight-style lighting. (as opposed to those giant light towers) There are currently blue signs stating "Cashless Tolling Coming 2024"

[ElishaGOtis]

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I have an update from GSV. https://maps.app.goo.gl/oXQFDfyZDPDsu3J99

This shows the aforementioned blue sign. A website is listed - driveks.com - which confirms that cashless tolling will be active starting July 2024. Like other ORT toll systems, this appears to be using be segment/zone based tolling with gantries between each exit. Not sure if they will be fully using toll-by-plate or if they'll keep using online-only payments like on Exit 53A / US-400.

[vdeane]

Not sure if they will be fully using toll-by-plate or if they'll keep using online-only payments like on Exit 53A / US-400.

I guess it's not just Illinois.

[ElishaGOtis]

Not sure if they will be fully using toll-by-plate or if they'll keep using online-only payments like on Exit 53A / US-400.

I guess it's not just Illinois.

There's also San Joaquin TCA. Arguably it's cheaper for the agency to direct motorists to pay online after travel, but certainly not as convenient for motorists compared to traditional toll-by-plate mail invoices... Thankfully, on both the Kansas Turnpike and ISTHA's tollways, one can use SunPass PRO.

[route56]

Now that Kansas Turnpike has officailly gone Cashless...

* At the new cashless gantires, including the previously installed open-road tolling gantries at East Topeka and the Eastern Terminial, the blue "Coming 2024" signs have been replaced by new green ones stating "Kansas Turnpike Toll Zone XXX" (where XXX is the nearest mile marker).

Access to the Toll booths at the Eastern Terminal have been blocked off. At East Topeka, access to the toll booths from the Eastbound I-70 mainline ONLY has been blocked. The toll booth areas at East Topeka still serve as ramps from westbound I-70 to the Oakland Expressway northbound and from the Oakland Expressway southbound to eastbound I-70.

[kphoger]

Ugh.  We just got a bill at work from the turnpike authority for a toll violation back in early February.  The company vehicle had a temporary tag at the time but, of course, we don't have any vehicles with temp tags currently.  So now we can't figure out whose vehicle it was in order to charge the right person.

Toll booths should just take cash.

[The Ghostbuster]

Cash and ticket tollbooths are obsolete. It is much better (and faster) to have electronic cashless toll plazas.

[Scott5114]

Cash and ticket tollbooths are obsolete. It is much better (and faster) to have electronic cashless toll plazas.

How is what Kyle's company is going through better and faster than taking cash?