The Dulles Toll Road will transition to all-electronic toll collection starting on March 1, and exact change will no longer be accepted.
Through Feb. 28, drivers will still be able to use the exact change machines, which take quarters and dollar coins., will phase out toll booths and shuttered coin machines so as to convert them to lanes. Manned toll booths stopped operation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The MWAA decided to shutter the coin machines for multiple reasons. Firstly, they were used far less than non-cash options. In 2022, only 726,367 transactions were paid in cash, a mere 2% of total transactions on the Dulles Toll Road. Authorities also expect the removal of booths to speed up traffic, thereby lessening emissions from idling vehicles.
“If you think about it, there’s five toll roads in the region. We are the last one that takes cash. Cash is very labor intensive. It’s very cumbersome,” Dulles Toll Road Manager Stephen Settle told TV station WRC-4, the NBC
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