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MassPike automated toll customers were overcharged

Aug. 12, 2009 | 8:01 pm No comments

Tens of thousands of Massachusetts Turnpike motorists have been socked with falsely inflated bills because the company that provided the transponders for the so-called Fast Lane system violated its multimillion-dollar contract by failing to inspect the system, a state audit has found.

State Auditor Joseph DeNucci -who investigated the overcharges after a front-page Herald expose in February – found that Fast Lane provider TransCore failed to inspect transponder equipment over the past two years as mandated in its $11 million-a-year contract.

Read the full story in the Boston Herald.

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