TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Motorists may be able to use their Florida SunPass transponders on South Carolina's toll roads in the coming months and on drives between Kansas and Texas in about a year, according to a newsletter sent out Tuesday to SunPass customers.
"We expect that by late summer you will be able to use your SunPass transponder for your next trip to Hilton Head Island!" Florida's Turnpike Enterprise Executive Director Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti said in the newsletter. "Also, by this time next year, we hope to have connected our SunPass Customer Service Center with the Central U.S. Interoperability Hub in Texas."
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Florida already has such reciprocal toll deals with Georgia and North Carolina. But the technology isn't ready for more Northern states, and timelines for implementation were not immediately available from a turnpike spokesman.
The state continues to work with E-ZPass agencies -- spread across 16 states in the Northeast and Midwest -- to link the technologies, Gutierrez-Scaccetti wrote.
"E-ZPass agencies do not yet have the capability to read SunPass," Gutierrez-Scaccetti wrote.
Despite the delays, a 2012 federal law, known as MAP-21, calls for all highway toll facilities to be linked by Oct. 1.