A professional New York City driver was blindsided when the MTA hit him with over $14,000 in E-ZPass late fees and had his license suspended \u2014 despite claiming he paid his tolls on time.<\/p>\n
Luis Corporan, a longtime licensed driver with the Taxi and Limousine Commission, has been without a paycheck since receiving a Feb. 9 DMV notice stripping him of his driving privileges and outlining mounting fees and penalties from tolls he thought he had already paid, CBS New York reported.<\/a><\/p>\n The married father of four said the MTA has since stonewalled his desperate pleas for an appeal.<\/p>\n Luis Corporan, a longtime Taxi and Limousine Commission driver, has been off the road and without a paycheck since receiving the Feb. 9 DMV notice. CBS News<\/p>\n \u201cAs drivers, we have to be on top of it, but I was on top of it, paying my tolls bills,\u201d Corporan told the outlet.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I heard the amount, there was no words. I just hung up the phone and started just thinking, where would I get the money from.\u201d<\/p>\n The charges stretch back years, leaving him on the hook for $2,134 in unpaid tolls and $11,900 in late fees, Corporan said.<\/p>\n Corporan said the charges from the e-tolling system stretch back years, leaving him on the hook for $2,134 in unpaid tolls and $11,900 in late fees. CBS News<\/p>\n While he had received ocassional notices from the MTA<\/a>, the stunned driver thought they were for tolls he had already paid through the app. He\u2019s also now wondering why his E-ZPass tag worked at some tolls but not others, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy wasn\u2019t it reading it here, but then it actually started reading here?\u201d Corporan explained, staring at the breakdown of the staggering bill.<\/p>\n He is now left wondering why his E-ZPass transponder worked at some tolls but not others. CBS News<\/p>\n When Corporan tried to work out a deal with the MTA\u2019s toll payer advocate<\/a>, he said the agency offered to settle for about $8,000 \u2013 but only if he paid by the end of the day. Without that kind of money, and with even less now, his debt continues to pile up.<\/p>\n The MTA sidestepped the issue when CBS inquired about Corporan\u2019s case.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who pay their tolls don\u2019t pay fines,\u201d the agency told the outlet, calling the case and others the outlet has reported on examples of \u201cwillful persistent toll evasion.\u201d<\/p>\n While similar penalties have reportedly crippled other Big Apple drivers, state Assemblyman Mike Reilly is pushing for a bill to cap the eye-popping fees the MTA insists are legal.\u00a0 Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n The MTA did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n While similar penalties have reportedly crippled other Big Apple drivers<\/a>, state Assemblyman Mike Reilly is pushing for a bill to cap the eye-popping fees<\/a> the MTA insists are legal.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, that is just sheer not caring about people,\u201d Reilly told CBS of the transportation agency.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though something is legal doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s the right thing to do. That just means that we haven\u2019t passed my legislation that caps what they can charge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A professional New York City driver was blindsided when the MTA hit him with over $14,000 in E-ZPass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14736,13358,42539,57,141,9,24,56,63,65,64,17898,58],"class_list":["post-169777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-commuting","tag-driving","tag-fees","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-tolls","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}