Honor System Being Extended to Exit 11 Toll

Starting Friday, drivers without an E-ZPass exiting and entering the Everett Turnpike at Exit 11 in Merrimack will be expected to pay their toll on the honor system.

Joining the likes of the toll booths at Exits 10 and 12, starting Friday, the booths at 11 will no longer be staffed overnight.

Effective March 22, the Exit 11 Toll plaza will not be staffed nightly from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. During this time period, motorists who do not have E-ZPass will have three options to pay.

1. Enter exact change lane and pay toll with exact change. The toll costs 50 cents.
2. Enter exact change lane and pick up a pre-printed envelope, which can be mailed in or processed at Hooksett Administration Building to pay the toll and 50 cent processing fee. This is a total of $1 to go through the toll.
3. Enter E-ZPass lane, where system will collect image of the license plate of the registered owner of the vehicle who will be mailed an invoice for the toll and $1 invoicing fee. This is a total of $1.50 to go through the toll.

Prices above are for single-axle vehicles. E-ZPass drivers can use the plaza as usual.

Failure to pay a toll in any of these manners will result in increased fines, DOT Spokesman Bill Boynton says. If a driver does not pay the expected toll, fines increase on an incremental scale over a period of months. Any unpaid tolls will flag the operator in the automobile registration renewal system and in order to renew their registration, they will be required to pay the fines.

According to Boynton, "These changes at Exit 11, which are already in effect at Exits 10 and 12, are expected to improve the efficiency of toll collection operations during the hours when traffic is minimal."

Toll attendants working these hours will be reassigned to other shifts or nearby toll facilities.