[Daffynition]

Surefire way to stop the skimming. Force everyone to use EZ-Pass.

[Flag_This]

$65,000 a year...to sit in a toll booth?

[raygunfan]

so they are fazing out glorified cashiers????? they were making 65000, for doing nothing????

wtf?

and now they cut the pay to 490000??? oh those poor babies....

again, wtf?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Just as long as none of the funds collected through EZPass go to line the coffers of the Teamsters Union, which is the union the toll collectors belong to.

Disgusting, greedy racket those toll booths. I’ve seen a more than 50% increase in the tolls in the last two years in PA and it is not going to road work. It all goes straight to union wages, union benefits, and union pension.

[gusopol3]

EZ pass, what a great way to let everybody know where you are. Just wait until they start sending out speeding tickets based on elapsed time between two points. Maybe there is a way to pay off the national debt without spending cuts or raising taxes after all.

[Happy Rain]

Last time I was on the Jersey TP was back in 1976—took a Navy buddy to his home in Franklin.

It was like driving into a highway prison where you had to bribe the guards to get off the damn thing. It was definitely a mob run operation.
There were thousands of impoverished Turn Pikers with their families who didn't have the bread to get off it camped out on the shoulders and medians begging and scrounging until they could scrape enough together to pay the tollbooth screws for their freedom.
A more depressing place I ain't never seen before.

[Daffynition]

Your new career path just changed. ;D

[loveitor..]

New Jersey Toll Booth Collector Union Guys

[Trajan88]

I think the toll authority here in N. Texas did something similar... they were going (now are) all electronic tolling... but they didn't do so as fast as they could have. There was something in the paper 3 or 4 years ago that mentioned they wanted to slowly transition so as to not throw all the toll collectors out of work.

I said it then and I say it now... Why? In the private sector when a business wants to can you here in Texas (right to work state) they do it ... on the street cold turkey.

[Graybeard58]

Next, elevator operators.