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frontpage Posted by sxw88 • Sep 29, 2023
frontpage Posted by sxw88 • Sep 29, 2023

San Francisco Bay: Clean Air Vehicle Owners: Bay Area Express Lanes Toll

w/ FasTrak Flex or CAV Toll Tag

50% Off

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FasTrak is offering Eligible Clean Air Vehicle Owners in San Francisco Bay Area: 50% Off Discount on Tolls in Bay Area Express Lanes with FasTrak Flex or FasTrak CAV Toll Tag (Learn which toll tag to order).

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Note, if you need to order a CAV Toll Tag, click here (account registration is required). Golden Gate Bridge Tolls are excluded from this offer

Eligible Vehicles:
  • Only CAVs with green, yellow, blue or orange decals are eligible for discounted and toll-free travel.
    • You must obtain your CAV decal from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). To learn how to apply for a CAV decal, click here
  • Full List of Eligible Vehicles
  • Carpools, vanpools and motorcycles need a FasTrak Flex toll tag to receive discounted tolls in all Bay Area Express Lanes
  • If you do not use express lanes as a carpool, vanpool, motorcyle or eligble CAV, a standard FasTrak toll tag will serve all your needs.
Express Lanes:
  • Express lanes are usually identified with white pavement markings as well as signage above and next to the lanes.
  • Express lanes are available on 101 San Mateo, 101/SR-85 Santa Clara, I-580, I-680 Contra Costa, I-680 Sunol, I-880 and SR-237.
Bridge Tolls:
  • All seven state-owned bridges have at least one FasTrak-only lane in operation.
    • State-owned bridges include Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward.
  • For CAVs to be eligible to receive the discounted carpool toll rate at the state-owned toll bridges, you must:
    • Display valid clean air decals
    • Have a FasTrak account in good standing
    • Travel through a designated carpool lane

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  • Refer to forum thread for discussion from the community regarding this offer. - slickdewmaster

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Written by sxw88
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FasTrak is offering Eligible Clean Air Vehicle Owners in San Francisco Bay Area: 50% Off Discount on Tolls in Bay Area Express Lanes with FasTrak Flex or FasTrak CAV Toll Tag (Learn which toll tag to order).

Thanks community member sxw88 for sharing this deal

Note, if you need to order a CAV Toll Tag, click here (account registration is required). Golden Gate Bridge Tolls are excluded from this offer

Eligible Vehicles:
  • Only CAVs with green, yellow, blue or orange decals are eligible for discounted and toll-free travel.
    • You must obtain your CAV decal from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). To learn how to apply for a CAV decal, click here
  • Full List of Eligible Vehicles
  • Carpools, vanpools and motorcycles need a FasTrak Flex toll tag to receive discounted tolls in all Bay Area Express Lanes
  • If you do not use express lanes as a carpool, vanpool, motorcyle or eligble CAV, a standard FasTrak toll tag will serve all your needs.
Express Lanes:
  • Express lanes are usually identified with white pavement markings as well as signage above and next to the lanes.
  • Express lanes are available on 101 San Mateo, 101/SR-85 Santa Clara, I-580, I-680 Contra Costa, I-680 Sunol, I-880 and SR-237.
Bridge Tolls:
  • All seven state-owned bridges have at least one FasTrak-only lane in operation.
    • State-owned bridges include Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward.
  • For CAVs to be eligible to receive the discounted carpool toll rate at the state-owned toll bridges, you must:
    • Display valid clean air decals
    • Have a FasTrak account in good standing
    • Travel through a designated carpool lane

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • Refer to forum thread for discussion from the community regarding this offer. - slickdewmaster

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yeti79
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Everything about the tolls is a scam. They were originally supposed to end once the bridges were paid for, but the folks in charge decided they didn't want to stop the money flow so now they use the toll system as a jobs initiative (employing lots of worthless administrators and CSRs) and after the government takes its cut for "administering the program" what's left is given to the failing transit agencies so they can pay janitors $200k to sleep on the job.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/ar...911932.php
TikiTaka
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I would not call this a deal because this is the policy which has been executed in the past 3 years
dong888
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The discount is only applicable when HOA times are enforced. That means weekends and off peak times are not valid.

And I really hated fasttack. 680 always has issue with scanning my toll tag and will charge me. 880 has no issue. If you have fast track, I recommend check the balance regularly. If the charges are based on license plate number, that means you could be charged even though if you multiple occupants.

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Sigh.. those who can afford buying 50k cars get all the tax rebates and discounted tolls. God bless America
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eric1e
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I can't count the number of times the transponder fails to be read and it ends up billing against your license plate. When this happens it will always bill you for the cost of 1 person. Making it worse there is like a 1 week delay for those charges to reach your account so by the time you are aware you've reached over hundreds of dollars in charges which are hard to get reversed. Scam.
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I would not call this a deal because this is the policy which has been executed in the past 3 years
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Quote from unknownanonymous :
Sigh.. those who can afford buying 50k cars get all the tax rebates and discounted tolls. God bless America
Most people who can afford 50K ev are not eligible for the tax rebates but pay a lot income tax on the other hand.
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FrozenDarkness
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this isn't new info right
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Quote from dong888 :
The discount is only applicable when HOA times are enforced. That means weekends and off peak times are not valid.

And I really hated fasttack. 680 always has issue with scanning my toll tag and will charge me. 880 has no issue. If you have fast track, I recommend check the balance regularly. If the charges are based on license plate number, that means you could be charged even though if you multiple occupants.
I been having the same issues too! I feel like it's a scam on the express lane because of the scanner issues.

I always have to chat with the rep from Fastrak, and they never accept fault that their scanner are faulty, instead blames drivers for their faulty fastrak or putting it at the wrong spot.
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im not a boomer and this website is so confusing
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cndealking
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Bay Area software engineers are getting 400k easily. They can afford any cars.
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It used to be free 🥺
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Quote from unknownanonymous :
Sigh.. those who can afford buying 50k cars get all the tax rebates and discounted tolls. God bless America
Which tax rebates? I looked into the CA incentives to get an EV and it's income capped at like 30k.... who could even survive???
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Quote from jomeyq :
Cars are one case where "trickle down" economics makes sense, because the cars that rich people buy today stay on the road for much, much longer than the couple of years that the original owners drive them for.

As someone who has always bought used cars, and whose last couple used cars have been very affordable electric ones, I say go for it rich people! Buy some EVs, then trade them-in. Heck, get a few! I'll gladly throw in my literal two cents or whatever it is to help keep that going.
But you're sitting on a seat someone else farted on....
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Between high gas prices and increased tolls getting an EV and a FastTrak pass is the way to go.
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tivoboy
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Isn't this the way it has been all along? For express lanes that have the multi selection transponders?
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Quote from tivoboy :
Isn't this the way it has been all along? For express lanes that have the multi selection transponders?
The discount is applied to only clean air vehicles with Carpool stickers.
Regular car do not get discount, but express lane is free if you have 3 passengers.

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