SunPass

E-ZPass and Florida's SunPass have established a working group on interoperability and the executive director of the E-ZPass Group PJ Wilkins has said it should be possible to have this working by the end of this year.

Florida 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.

Florida'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.