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Massachusetts Turnpike: EZ-Pass Replaces Cash, Toll Booths Now a Thing of the Past
Inquisitr ^ | October 30, 2016 | Ryan Anthony

Posted on 11/12/2016 1:03:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Massachusetts Turnpike is in uncharted water as EZ Pass has replaced cash along the state’s turnpike system and many toll collectors have been laid off.

In a world where many systems have gone electronic from payment for movies to parking, it was only a matter of time before the personless, electronic system eventually took over toll roads, as well. Along the Massachusetts Turnpike, it happened this weekend with toll collectors working their last shifts and the state moving quickly to tear down the booths where collections happened for decades.

According to the Boston Globe, the new cashless collections system began on Friday at 10 p.m. and will now be the permanent vehicle for toll collection — and yes, the pun was intentional.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: aet; billbyplate; cashless; demolition; ezpass; i90; infrastructure; layoffs; massachusetts; masspike; platepass; tollbooths; tollcollectors; tolls; transportation
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1 posted on 11/12/2016 1:03:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How does that work if someone doesn’t have EZ Pass?


2 posted on 11/12/2016 1:05:06 AM PST by grania
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To: grania

Each toll gantry has cameras that can take a picture of the driver’s license plate, and from that, a bill can be sent to him through the mail.


3 posted on 11/12/2016 1:05:49 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"All the better to track you with my dear."

"'Big Brother' is watching you!"

4 posted on 11/12/2016 1:07:59 AM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One step close to "a cashless society" where everything you do, everywhere you go and everything you buy is controlled by the coming Antichrist's "One World Government."

The Mark of the Beast... "don't leave home without it!"

5 posted on 11/12/2016 1:13:07 AM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Jmouse007; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; ...

Winner - and a lot of it they may not be doing on purpose. But that’s where it will all end up.


6 posted on 11/12/2016 1:18:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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7 posted on 11/12/2016 1:22:39 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The real question about all this is DID THEY FIRE THE TOLL BOOTH PERSONNEL then? Or just put them off on other trumped up jobs?


8 posted on 11/12/2016 1:45:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: grania

On the Golden Gate Bridge, they snap a photo of the back of your car, then using the license plate number mail you an invoice. It is really slick and actually works well.

I don’t know if California DMV works,with other state DMVs to mail invoices to out-of-state tourists.


9 posted on 11/12/2016 1:49:57 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: grania

The EZ-pass only system has been in place in Illinois for awhile. Massachusetts isn’t breaking new ground.


10 posted on 11/12/2016 1:51:28 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Gaffer

Other Trumped-up jobs...LOL.

My first thought, too. These jobs didn’t get sent overseas and they aren’t coming back. Just another case of tech displacing people in mostly useless, dead-end jobs. I’ve often marveled at the fact they could actually find people willing to sit in a toll booth and collect dirty cash from strangers all the while breathing filthy, horribly polluted air and suffering non-stop noise. What a yuck job.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 1:55:06 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Now they man the mailrooms of the toll road dunners.


12 posted on 11/12/2016 2:04:24 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Gaffer

Trumped up???

That’s YUGE! BIG-LEAGUE! INCREDIBLE AND UNBELIEVABLE!

OK, I’ll shut up now.


13 posted on 11/12/2016 2:10:22 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables.)
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To: grania

“Each toll gantry has cameras that can take a picture of the driver’s license plate, and from that, a bill can be sent to him through the mail.”

But the bill is not just for the toll. The bill includes a big fat admin fee. Here in VA, I think the fee is around $12. I would expect that John Law can give you a healthy piece of paying paper when he pulls you over for some other infraction and finds you without an ezpass. The signs requiring the expass device are yuge and series.


14 posted on 11/12/2016 2:11:55 AM PST by KingLudd
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Let me make sure I understand—a tourist driving through Virginia is supposed to have an Ezpass?


15 posted on 11/12/2016 2:16:18 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve had two comments about the use of ‘trumped up’.....if you will read my comment you will find that I didn’t capitalize the word (which has been around a very long time).

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/trumped—up


16 posted on 11/12/2016 2:19:37 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I drive this Turnpike like once a year maybe. Now I have to get one of theses EZ-Pass things. Stupid.
17 posted on 11/12/2016 2:20:19 AM PST by McGruff (Do you know what day it is? It's Trumpday!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I used to rail against toll transponders, but now figure that there are massive license plate scanning databases extant. There’s no escaping being tracked these days.

What does bug me is that the transponders were specifically designed to omit feedback - i.e. beep or something when you get charged.


18 posted on 11/12/2016 2:21:05 AM PST by glorgau
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To: glorgau; SaveFerris

Correct, everything is tracked now. If Hillary had won,I had estimated we would be under the rule of the antichrist and the global system within a couple of years. Now that Trump is about to assume power, that may be delayed. However, we never know what is going to happen. Christians should remain vigilant. And rely on God.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 2:30:16 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

More unemployment for Ethiopians


20 posted on 11/12/2016 2:39:16 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW)
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