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The North Texas Tollway Authority's TollTags have been in use at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport since 2004 and at Love Field Airport since 2007. A spokeswoman said 460,000 customers used TollTags at the airports in 2008.
Orlando International Airport parking garages have accepted the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority's E-PASS since 2005.
In both Orlando and Dallas, the airports paid for installation and operation of the equipment that reads the passes. Under its agreement with the city of Houston, which runs the airports, the Toll Road Authority picked up the tab for the EZ Tag system at the garages.
Hanson also noted that the city-run garages where EZ Tags can be used are not the only, or the cheapest, places to park at the airports.
The chief operating cost of the program was bank fees. Amegy Bank was charging the authority $70,000 a month in bank fees for airport transactions because each EZ Tag passing through a garage gate resulted in a charge for using the credit card linked to the motorist's EZ Tag account. The authority, not the motorists, pays those charges.
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