Some Solano County drivers have been quick to report frustration with the new express lanes on Interstate-80 that recently launched in Vacaville and Fairfield.
The lanes, which serve drivers who wish to pay to bypass traffic in the busy Bay Area corridor, officially started tolling on Dec. 16. Construction by Caltrans wrapped up around the fall of 2025.
Several drivers have now claimed they were erroneously charged for driving in the lane, which they say they never did. CBS Sacramento reached out to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), which manages the FasTrak system across the Bay Area, to get answers on the issues.
"At this stage, it appears that these are isolated incidents because we have not received a flood of incoming calls or messages to the fast track customer service center," said John Goodwin of MTC. "I just think it's really too early to draw conclusions, but I want to reassure drivers in the corridor that we tested the equipment before the lanes opened last month, and everything was shipshape at that time," said Goodwin.
Leon Ward contacted CBS Sacramento and posted on social media saying that he was falsely charged the $0.75 fee for entering the lane on Dec. 22, 2025, just after 5 a.m. near Fairfield. He says he never entered the lane and disputed the charge with FasTrak.
He just happened to notice the fee when he checked his FasTrak account.
The toll lane camera captured his car, as MTC confirmed to CBS Sacramento, but the photo was too dark to...
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