Port Authority Green Pass program

[Syclone]

I have had an E-Zpass since the started issuing them. A couple of weeks ago I applied to E-Zpass headquarters on Staten Island for an additional transponder for my Prius. I just got a reply back denying my request because my E-Zpass was registered with MTA rather than E-Zpass directly, or NYTA, or NYNJPA. I either have to get another account or apply for 2 passes (a regular one and a green one) and then cancel my existing pass when the new ones arrive. Talk about bureaucracy! All of the transponders are processed thru the same location.

[Boo]

+1

That's right. Way back in the beginning, all we had done was apply for an EZPass, and that's what they gave us. We didn't (and I think, couldn't) ask for a pass issued by any particular agency. But now we're forced to apply for 2 more passes to get the one single pass that we want, and to send our applications to the same office on Staten Island where we had sent our very first application for a pass many years ago.

[SparrowHawk60]

Originally Posted by Syclone

I have had an E-Zpass since the started issuing them. A couple of weeks ago I applied to E-Zpass headquarters on Staten Island for an additional transponder for my Prius. I just got a reply back denying my request because my E-Zpass was registered with MTA rather than E-Zpass directly, or NYTA, or NYNJPA. I either have to get another account or apply for 2 passes (a regular one and a green one) and then cancel my existing pass when the new ones arrive. Talk about bureaucracy! All of the transponders are processed thru the same location.

Someone in New York found the biggest roll of red tape they can wrap the Hybrid owner up in and they intend to use every inch of it! All the E-Z pass requests are handled by the Staten Island office. I'll take a wild guess and say that there is no communication between the numerous different agency's. It's evident no one who works for E-Z pass is smart enough to look up what accounts you do have and send you the appropriate Green Pass. Instead 'they' let you waste you time and efforts only to send you a rejection notice!
In a proper world, New York State would have set up one and only one Green Pass program. The Green Pass would then be used to discount all travel through all of New York's and New Jersey's tolls.
The waste of a large percentage of drivers having to use two issued passes defeats any savings the state may have had by developing this program.

Take a trip from Albany (the states Capital) to New York City. You travel down the NYS Thruway with your Thruway Green Pass, you then travel down the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey (same green pass), cross the George Washington Bridge (PA different green pass, during off peak hours) cross either the Triborough or Whitestone Bridges (MTA change pass?) then travel out to Montague (LIE Clean Pass), come back up on the east side of the Hudson River and cross the Rip Van Winkle Bridge (Commuter white pass) to return to Albany.
You've changed your E-Z pass three or four times and had to place stickers all over your car. (to use the LIE HOV lane by yourself)!
You could always just keep one "white" E-Z pass and forget about any savings! Seems like this is New York's plan all along!

[SparrowHawk60]

Originally Posted by SparrowHawk60

Clean pass stickers are on the way to me.. I'll let you all know about them when they arrive.

I can't believe it, in three days my Clean Pass Vehicle stickers have arrived! Four light blue stickers on a sheet of reflective material about 7 1/2" by 10". Large stickers are aprx. 7" by 2 3/4" at the widest sections. Small stickers are aprx. 2" by 5" again at the widest sections. They are numbered but have no relation to my VIN or Plate number. Mine are in the mid 5000's.

New York State wants you to adhere () these stickers to the following locations: Large stickers are to be attached to the right side of both front and rear bumpers. Small stickers are to be attached to the rear quarter panels, one on each side.

Well, I'll be keeping mine in my car, not on it. If the need ever comes up that I need them, I'll worry about sticking them on at that time, but not until.

[Bababooey]

Originally Posted by Boo

+1

That's right. Way back in the beginning, all we had done was apply for an EZPass, and that's what they gave us. We didn't (and I think, couldn't) ask for a pass issued by any particular agency. But now we're forced to apply for 2 more passes to get the one single pass that we want, and to send our applications to the same office on Staten Island where we had sent our very first application for a pass many years ago.

...and that's just UTTERLY RIDICULOUS, isn't it?

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Originally Posted by SparrowHawk60

OFF TOPIC: METS, RED SOX, Orioles, any them (with the added exception of the TEXASS teams) is better than being a Scankees fan!

Speaking about the Skankees:

Did you hear that story about the construction worker who buried a David Ortiz Red Sox jersey in the concrete at the new Yankee Stadium?

I believe that this story is a hoax!

The whole tale of a construction worker (who just happened to be a Red Sox fan) burying a David Ortiz jersey in concrete in order to curse the Yankees and then having it dug up in a media circus sounds like it was engineered by the Yankee organization to deflect attention away from the way that their team has been playing so far this season and to grab some headlines for the team and for the new stadium!

In this day and age, I doubt that anybody could get away with stuffing a foreign object into freshly poured concrete. Anybody who has ever worked in the construction industry knows that not only are there are inspectors monitoring the pour, but there are many other workers around. Somebody would have definitely seen this guy stuffing a baseball jersey into the freshly poured concrete! Do you think that anybody (especially contruction workers who were Yankee fans) would remain silent if another worker was seen stuffing a Red Sox jersey into the concrete? I don't think so!

If the Yankee organization was not involved with this "curse" from the beginning, the workers (yes - WORKERS, as in more than one person was involved in burying the jersey in concrete) who did it were afraid that they had inadvertently hexed the Yankees, so if this story is true, it was done by Yankee fans trying to hex the Red Sox, not the other way around!

[Bababooey]

Originally Posted by Bababooey

They deliberately make it as difficult as possible for hybrid owners to obtain these Green Passes because they really don't want people getting them.

Originally Posted by SparrowHawk60

Seems like this is New York's plan all along!

I think that hybrid owners are finally realizing the truth about these EZ Pass Green Pass programs... They're nothing but a tremendous scam!

[kwp99]

Originally Posted by robertm

I applied for the Green Pass and was rejected. The application address is in Staten Island. There is no address in New Jersey to send the application.

Quote:
"However, we are unable to proceed with your request because, at this time, Green Passes are not (sic)are not available to New Jersey E-ZPass account holders."

I can understand the NY Thruway Authority restricting users, but I cannot understand The Port Authority of New York AND NEW JERSEY declining this request.

I will be on a writing campaign as well.


Rob

I just happened to come across the Green Pass program when I was checking the ezpassny.com site to check what the new tolls were. Luckily that was only a couple of days after they started accepting applications so I did not lose much time. I live in New Jersey and sent a copy of my NJ auto registration and a request letter to the Staten Island address and had my Green Pass in about a week to 10 days. I can't imagine why they would reject your application. Maybe they liked that I sent a color copy of my registration. I thought it was a bit of a pain having to write a letter rather than apply online, but was pleasantly surprised that I got it as quickly as I did.

[Boo]

Originally Posted by kwp99

I just happened to come across the Green Pass program when I was checking the ezpassny.com site to check what the new tolls were. Luckily that was only a couple of days after they started accepting applications so I did not lose much time. I live in New Jersey and sent a copy of my NJ auto registration and a request letter to the Staten Island address and had my Green Pass in about a week to 10 days. I can't imagine why they would reject your application. Maybe they liked that I sent a color copy of my registration. I thought it was a bit of a pain having to write a letter rather than apply online, but was pleasantly surprised that I got it as quickly as I did.

I'm hoping for the same result, but am not optimistic since my existing white EZPass was technically issued by MTA and not the Port Authority. Was your existing white EZPass a Port Authority issued pass?

[kwp99]

Originally Posted by Boo

I'm hoping for the same result, but am not optimistic since my existing white EZPass was technically issued by MTA and not the Port Authority. Was your existing white EZPass a Port Authority issued pass?

My tag# begins with 005 so apparently mine was issued by the Port Authority. I guess I might have similar problems if I tried to get the MTA Green Pass.

[SparrowHawk60]

Any updates, Boo? KWP99? Bababooey?