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Fast Lane transponder batteries have a life of five to seven years and must be taken to a service center to be replaced.

$24 bite ahead for many in Fast Lane

Free replacements of transponders to end

By Ralph Ranalli
Globe Staff / December 28, 2005

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The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority will no longer provide free replacements for hundreds of thousands of dying Fast Lane electronic toll transponders and instead will charge users a $24.61 fee for each new device, a spokesman said yesterday. (Full article: 789 words)

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