The Illinois Tollway was only suppose to be around for 10 years when they first opened in 1958.....Well. here we are 55 years later and they’re still around.
The toll booth employees went Union and the state realized that 70% of the tolls collected went to pay the overpaid union workers. Then came I-Pass and good-bye to 90% of toll booth employees. Maybe we can get rid of the teachers union here and give more money to the good teachers and into the schools instead of the huge mouth and stomach of Karen “Jabba the Hut” Lewis.
Ditto the Massachusetts Turnpike.The law in effect at the time it was announced said that the tolls were to stop when the bonds were paid off.Well,the bonds were paid off in the mid-late 1980's but the tolls are still there,higher than ever.A local Boston columnist did some research a while back and found that the typical full time toll taker made something like $70K a year.That's not surprising because you have to either be a member of "the most vulnerable among us" or "connected" to get one of those jobs.