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This article is about the toll collection system. For fastest lane of a highway, see passing lane. A passing lane is the lane on a multi-lane Highway or Motorway closest to the center of the road (the Central reservation) For the arcade game, see Fast Lane (arcade game). Fast Lane is an Arcade game created by Konami, released in 1987.

Fast Lane is the RFID electronic toll collection system used in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. Radio-frequency identification ( RFID) is an automatic identification method relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or Electronic toll collection (ETC, an adaptation of military " Identification friend or foe " technology aims to eliminate the delay on Toll roads It is a The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Fast Lane is used on the Massachusetts Turnpike (which also operates the Sumner Tunnel and Ted Williams Tunnel) and on the Massachusetts Port Authority operated Tobin Bridge. The Massachusetts Turnpike (commonly shortened to the MassPike or The Pike) is the easternmost 138-mile (222 km stretch of Interstate 90. The Sumner Tunnel is a road Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts. It carries traffic under Boston Harbor in one direction from Logan International The Ted Williams Tunnel, also known as the Williams Tunnel is the name of the third harbor tunnel under Boston Harbor, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels Massachusetts Port Authority, or Massport, is a Port district in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Maurice J Tobin Memorial Bridge (formerly and still sometimes referred to as the Mystic River Bridge) is a cantilever truss bridge that spans more than two It is also accepted at one parking structure operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Route 128 Station is a stop on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Attleboro/Providence MBTA Commuter Rail line with inbound service to Back Bay The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Fast Lane is fully interoperable with the many E-ZPass facilities in other states, however, since mid-2002, FastLane users receive a discount on some tolls that E-ZPass users do not enjoy. E-ZPass is an Electronic toll collection system used on most tolled Roads Bridges and Tunnels in the northeastern United States

History

Toll booth at the junction of I-84 and the Mass Pike (exit 9).

The original electronic toll collection system in Massachusetts was called MassPass and was installed at the Ted Williams Tunnel. The Ted Williams Tunnel, also known as the Williams Tunnel is the name of the third harbor tunnel under Boston Harbor, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels This system was scrapped and replaced by the current E-ZPass-compatible system in 1998 for the Ted Williams Tunnel and the Massachusetts Turnpike Boston extension and extended to the rest of the turnpike in 1999.

When the system was first introduced, AAA gave out to its Western Massachusetts members an orange Fast Lane pass. The AAA (usually read triple-A) formerly known as the American Automobile Association, is an American not-for-profit Automobile Western Massachusetts is a loosely defined geographical region of the U This pass could be used from exits 1 to 6 without toll because these exits do not currently charge tolls. The orange passes are still used today.

Sponsors

Today (2005), the system is sponsored by Citizens Bank for the Massachusetts Turnpike and by TD Banknorth for the Massachusetts Port Authority. Several banks are commonly known as Citizens Bank. Citizens Financial Group Inc TD Banknorth, formerly "Banknorth" is a fully-owned subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank. [1] Along the Turnpike it is branded the Citizens Bank Fast Lane, whereas at the Tobin Bridge it is branded TD Banknorth Fastlane. A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a Before Citizens Bank, Fleet Bank used to sponsor the Fast Lane system and was the founding financial institution of the local system along with the Massachusetts Turnpike. FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts –based Bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston

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