For example, if you have an E-Z Pass, get on the Pike in Framingham and get off at Newton Corner, the toll is currently $1.40 for one way. Under the new electronic tolls, that will drop to 85 cents.

You can obtain a Massachusetts EZ-Pass transponder for free regardless of where you live. Kadich says roughly 80 percent of the turnpike market has Massachusetts EZ-Pass transponders.

The web address/domain name before the first single slash (/) is NOT identical to what you find when you go to the official EZ Pass website (ezdrivema.com). It has extra characters, -tickenz.xin/.

We also tried the EZ Pass customer service phone line, but mostly we heard a busy signal. In fact, we called 50 times and only connected on eight of them.