MTA Scofflaw Racks up $100K in Tolls and Fines

The congestion pricing program, which will charge drivers who enter Manhattan below 60th Street, will be administered by the MTA. But what happens when one of its own workers racks up more than $100-thousand dollars in unpaid tolls?

A superintendent of a bus depot in East New York put together a nifty scheme to avoid paying tolls. His Nissan Sentra had no front license plate, and a dirty plastic cover on the rear, plus he used three different E-Z Pass accounts, and changed his license plate multiple times.

He might've gotten away with it, if not for an anonymous complaint sent to the Office of the MTA Inspector General.

After arbitration, the unnamed worker was demoted, and suspended for 12 weeks without pay.

The MTA calls the behavior reprehensible.

But he only had to pay $10,000 of his more than $100,000 tab.