New Mass. Pike electronic tolling: Here's how to get an E-ZPass transponder in Massachusetts

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The Ludlow toll gantry on the Mass. Pike headed westbound.

(Noah R. Bombard)

The plan to switch Massachusetts to all-electronic tolling means folks rolling through the Bay State will need a transponder.

If you don't have a transponder, the toll gantry you pass under along the Mass. Pike will take a picture of the license plate on the car you're driving, and send a bill to the address of the license is linked to, with an added surcharge.

State transportation officials are getting transponders into as many hands as possible.

Here's how to get a transponder before then and more:

  • Getting a transponder means you open a new E-ZPass MA account. You can receive up to four transponders. And yes,
  • You can apply for a
  • Here is the application form for an individual E-ZPass account
  • You can also get a transponder from E-ZPass from these five "Customer Service Centers": Auburn (
  • You can also get them at select Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) and retail locations, including: Braintree, Brockton, Danvers, Fall River, Greenfield, Haverhill, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Milford, North Adams, Pittsfield, Revere, Southbridge, Springfield, Taunton, Watertown, Wilmington and Worcester.
  • You can link the transponder to your debit or credit card, or your bank account.
  • If you don't want to participate in the E-ZPass program anymore, you can bring your transponder to a Customer Service Center, or send it to one of the centers via first class prepaid mail.
  • There are 16 U.S. states with the E-ZPass program: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island are the New England ones. The others are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Connecticut and Vermont do not have electronic toll collection at the moment.
  • According to E-ZPass, it has over 18 million accounts and handles the "collection of over $7 billion dollars in electronic toll revenues."
  • The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) notes on its website, "If you live in a state that does not currently have an E-ZPass program, you may be able to sign up for a neighboring state's program."
  • There is a carpool program
  • If that special person in your life uses E-ZPass quite a bit, apparently you can get a gift certificate for them. According to the MassDOT's website, they're "popular item at holiday gift-giving time as well as for birthdays, graduation and students going off to college."

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