Sign Up For EZPass This Thursday in Beverly

The state's Department of Transportation and Beverly elected officials, Rep. Jerry Parisella and Sen. Joan Lovely, have scheduled an upcoming E-ZPass sign-up session ahead of the transition to All Electronic Tolling on the Tobin Bridge.

The E-ZPass Street Team will be enrolling new customers in the E-ZPass program Thursday at Beverly City Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. 

Those attending the sign-up should bring their registration (license plate numbers) for the vehicles they would like to equip with the free transponders, as well as a credit card, check or cash to add value to their new account.

Beginning in the summer of 2014, motorists will no longer have the option to stop at a toll booth and pay cash for their Tobin Bridge toll. Tolls will be collected electronically in one of two ways: either through the motorist’s E-ZPass transponder or via a program in which a camera captures the license plate and the vehicle’s registered owner is billed by mail. E-ZPass is free to join and customers receive a transponder onsite.

“I appreciate the DOT coming to Beverly to provide this valuable service. Soon the state will be going to all-electronic tolling so it will benefit travelers to obtain the EZ-Pass, which can be used from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois,” said Parisella.

In addition to these sign up sessions, motorists may also join E-ZPass online, Mass.gov/EZPassMA or by phone, 877-627-7745. An E-ZPass Customer Service Center is open at the Square One Mall in Saugus on Route 1 South.