Yeah, the problem is that when there's no place to pay the toll, I can't. I pay it if there's a collection booth.

And there's really no way to send in the payment without the notice that you need to pay it — and that only comes after the rental car company has been involved. I'd gladly pay NTTA up front and not ever let National know about it, but that's really not an option in this case.

No hiding allowed in The Box. All FM and photo site links must be posted. :D

I think it took me about three weeks of off-and-on inputting during the evenings to get it mostly right. I'm about 95% confident on Equipment Types and Registration Numbers for 1995-Present. I need to start working through OAG's to get the earlier equipment types right, and make sure my IAH-MZT vs. IAH-MEX-MZT routings are accurate (I flew IAH-MZT nonstop in the 80s when CO offered it, as CO often cancelled/restarted the route). I'm hoping the Bureau of Transportation Statistics or FAA have stored Registration Numbers for flights somewhere (presumably on microfiche) so I can make a trip up to D.C. and cull older tail-number records for my pre-1995 flights.

As is customary of me but rather late to this thread, I hope that everyone enjoys this version of the Lounge thread concept here in the Continental OnePass forum.

I remember when I was a OnePass Gold Elite on Continental Airlines back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and that was the top tier at that time.

I should have tried for Lifetime Gold status. I was not that far away from it, but what did I know back then?I used to live within walking distance of that office complex.

I remember when New Jersey 101.5 had an unsuccessful campaign to abolish tolls in New Jersey back in the early 1990s.

Have there been any additional campaigns since then, other than this?

You managed to make it in before post 19,000. ^ :D

Ahh, thank you. I couldn't remember which acronym they switched to. And re: the stickers, while that was going on it just fueled my conspiracy theory about New Jersey. I don't think that NJ will stop infringing on people's lives until we are all dog-like...the NJ chip. We're going to have little GPS antennas installed in us...oh never mind, that was EZPass.

I realied there are no toll booths.

Ahh, I was suggesting that if you could pay the agency before the notice goes out, you should be ok.

In theory, even if you pay them directly after National sends you a notice, National can't charge you. At least that is how it worked out with my parking ticket and Avis.

I should have been more specific. I was trying to state the fact that TX has their reg stickers on their windshields, like NJ. Not anything more than that. It is tough typing, while trying to hold a 4 week old.

I think they tried a few years ago but no one cared. I think when they found out that the rest of the country was adding toll roads that removed their main argument point. It was also 19.5 years since the parkway had last raised tolls too.

I'm still grumbling about being one of the first people paying the new toll early Monday morning.

The stickers on the NJ windshields are inspection stickers and have nothing to do with registraion. My inspection and registration are out of sync by 3 months.

I wonder how CO Silvers are ever going to manage upgrades now that NW is parting ways with CO. I guess they can work in a 753 IAH-MSY on a Saturday morning once per year to remember what the front cabin looks like. :D

I'm agreeable to photo sites. Currently photobucket and Picasa, but I think that I'd rather have everything in Piscasa at this point, but it would be a royal pain to change.

I have no records for any of my flight as a kid, and I'm sure I underestimate what I flew as a kid, but it's all JFK (some LGA) to FLL and back. Maybe an extra 10-20K. Forget tail numbers, I don't even record that now. :o

On the way down to AC on Monday I am stopping in to get cash back for all my old tokens. I use to buy a lot and then forget about them. After EZ Pass I never used them. I think I have about $60. worth. They will give you cash for the ones you turn in up to $30. and then they send you a check for the balance. It will take 4-6 weeks. Of course, NJ needs the float on the money.....

Yes, in addition to a corrupt just about everything here, we have to get our cars put up on a rack for the State to poke and prod every other year. At least when I bought my car, I just got in after the law change that gave new cars a four-year window. This state sucks on many levels.

ssullivan got me started on those. You can get tail numbers for all your domestic flights (on major carriers) dating back to 1995 from http://www.bts.gov. Once you start doing tail-numbers, you have reached the Aerogeek equivalent of attending fetish parties in full bondage attire.