SunPass
Florida abandons velcro attachment for suction caps for transponders
Posted Tue, 2008-05-06 13:16Florida Turnpike Enterprise has abandoned velcro attachment for transponders in favor of suction cups.
There was too high an incidence of the velcro adhesive "melting in the fierce Florida sun," according to spokesman Christa Deason. The problem came to notice starting about two years ago when customers who'd had SunPass transponders a while complained they were falling off the windshield with both parts of the velcro left on the transponder.
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SunPass hits 3 million transponders in use
Posted Mon, 2007-04-16 16:49Florida's Turnpike Enterprise reports the 3 millionth SunPass transponder activated today. The first million took nearly four years from the beginning of electronic tolling on the Turnpike and associated systems in 1999 to the fall of 2003. The second million was rung up in about 21 months by the summer of 2005. The third million has taken about the same year and three-quarters.
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