Texas is becoming well-known for its burgeoning and expensive toll-road system championed by Ex. Gov. Rick Perry and others.  Thanks to Perry, et al driving on uncongested (or even congested) roads in Texas is getting more and more expensive.  Or is it? The Austin American Statesman reports that there are serious problems with toll road collections.  Some collections are not being made and other drivers are being billed for trips they did not make.  Red can tell you from personal experience – always check your toll tag bill because there’s a good chance it’s wrong.

The state’s troubled toll collection system had more than 3.5 million toll charges that outside contractors failed to process in a timely fashion — some were more than two years behind — and a variety of other problems that have overwhelmed the system, Texas Department of Transportation officials said Wednesday at a legislative hearing that amounted to a trip to the woodshed.

Aside from that backlog of toll transactions, which hit the system and Texas mailboxes late last year, an additional 30,000 motorists who have TxTag electronic toll tags on their windshields were wrongly billed in the mail.  About 30,000 TxTag account holders mistakenly received a bill by mail, a vendor told lawmakers Wednesday.

See the TXDOT for a complete map of where you must pay to drive in Texas.