FasTrak®

Get in the Fast Lane!

See an interactive map of participating Costco and Safeway locations.
Visit www.511.org or call 511 and say “FasTrak” for more information.
See the FasTrak TV spot

FasTrak allows you to pre-pay your bridge tolls so you can drive non-stop through the toll plaza. There are no fees to open or maintain a FasTrak account, and no deposit is required when customers use a credit card to open their account and request three or fewer toll tags.

More Cash Lanes Converted to FasTrak-only lanes

Starting in July 2007, more cash lanes will be converted to FasTrak-only lanes to ease traffic congestion at and near bridge toll plazas in the Bay Area.

New FasTrak-only lanes and other toll plaza improvements will be implemented on the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges. Toll lanes on the Golden Gate Bridge are unaffected and will remain the same.

New lane diagrams (PDF):

Schedule: FasTrak-only Lanes & Other Improvements

Estimated Completion	Bridge
July 2007	San Mateo-Hayward (COMPLETED, July 9, 2007)
August 2007	Antioch Carquinez (COMPLETED, August 11, 2007) Dumbarton (COMPLETED, August 16, 2007) Richmond-San Rafael (COMPLETED, August 18, 2007) Benicia-Martinez (COMPLETED, August 25, 2007)
Early September 2007	San Francisco-Oakland Bay (COMPLETED, September 3, 2007)

Press Releases

Bay Bridge Will Reopen With FasTrak® Upgrades (8/31/07)
New Benicia-Martinez Span Opens, Dedicated in Honor of Congressman George Miller (8/25/07)
Dumbarton and Richmond-San Rafael Bridges Get FasTrak Upgrades This Week (8/14/07)
New FasTrak-Only Lanes to Open Saturday at Carquinez Bridge Toll Plaza (8/9/07)
New FasTrak Lanes Debut at San Mateo-Hayward Bridge Toll Plaza (7/6/07)
Toll Plaza Projects Boost FasTrak Advantage, May Mean Longer Delays for Cash Payers (6/28/07)
FasTrak Toll Tags Now Available at Costco, Coming Soon to Safeway (1/8/2007)
FasTrak Transponders Available at Bay Bridge Toll Plaza (12/13/2006)
Lower Costs Expected to Put More Drivers on FasTrak (9/18/2006)
MTC Plans to Put More Drivers on FasTrak (5/10/2006)

About FasTrak

FasTrak Strategic Plan, May 2006 (Word)

The FasTrak electronic toll collection (ETC) system has been operational on all seven of the state-owned toll bridges in the Bay Area as well as the Golden Gate Bridge since December 2000, with at least one ETC-dedicated toll booth on each bridge to ease traffic congestion and speed travel.

Drivers who equip their vehicles with a FasTrak toll tag on the windshield or dashboard can glide through the toll plaza without stopping to pay cash. As vehicles pass, an overhead antenna reads the tag and automatically deducts the toll from the driver’s prepaid account. And, motorists can authorize FasTrak to charge a credit card to replenish the prepaid account when their balance gets low.

Every toll lane on on every Bay Area toll bridge is equipped with FasTrak readers, and one-quarter of all toll lanes are reserved for the exclusive use of FasTrak-equipped vehciles. During peak commute periods, some 70 percent of Golden Gate Bridge motorists of use FasTrak to pay their toll. About 42 percent of the motorists crossing state-owned toll bridges use FasTrak to pay their tolls.

MTC's Bay Area Toll Authority administers the FasTrak program in partnership with Caltrans and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. All customer service operations were consolidated into a single center, conveniently located at 475 The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco, in May 2005.