{"id":15758,"date":"2024-11-14T01:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/mackinac-bridge-adding-2-3-credit-card-fee-to-pay-for-never-ending-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:49:15","slug":"mackinac-bridge-adding-2-3-credit-card-fee-to-pay-for-never-ending-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/mackinac-bridge-adding-2-3-credit-card-fee-to-pay-for-never-ending-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackinac Bridge adding 2.3% credit card fee to pay for \u201cnever-ending\u201d maintenance\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Mackinac Bridge Authority will add a fee for those who pay tolls using a credit card starting in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2.3% \u201cconvenience fee\u201d for tolls paid by credit card will go into effect on January 1st, 2025, the Authority announced on Friday, November 8th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mackinacbridge.org\/mackinac-bridge-authority-approves-credit-card-convenience-fees-lower-deposit-limits-for-macpass\/\">press release<\/a>, the new fees will be put in place to counteract the rising transaction fees from credit card companies, which cost the Mackinac Bridge Authority $341,761 in 2024 so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough this convenience fee will not cover all credit card processing costs, it will help defray those costs in a way that will allow us to continue directing most of our toll revenues to the never-ending job of maintaining and operating the Mackinac Bridge,\u201d Authority Chairman Patrick \u201cShorty\u201d Gleason said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority will also stop accepting American Express as a payment method in the new year due to higher-than-average transaction fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/mackinac-bridge-adding-2-3-credit-card-fee-to-pay-for-never-ending-maintenance\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mackinac Bridge Authority will add a fee for those who pay tolls using a credit card starting in 2025.\u00a0 The 2.3% \u201cconvenience fee\u201d for tolls paid by credit card will go into effect on January 1st, 2025, the Authority announced on Friday, November 8th.\u00a0 According to a press release, the new fees will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15839,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions\/15839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}