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(Chicopee, MA, 10/27/16) Massachusetts Turnpike toll booth operator Kevin Wenzel, a resident of Palmer, works his last shift in a booth at Mass Pike Interchange 5 Chicopee on Thursday, October 27 ...
Many toll roads of different shapes and sizes exist in our world today, and each of them have a toll booth. The major operators of these booths have enjoyed decades of prosperity and outsized ...
Operators of Orange County’s toll road network are planning to eliminate cash payments and toll booth jobs as they try to squeeze more out of their financially strapped pay-to-drive highways ...
Many states are demolishing toll booths and switching to electronic systems, such as E-ZPass. ... "It's like the elevator operator. We're a dying breed. There's not too many of us left." ...
This weekend may mark the beginning of the end for toll-booth operators and plastic coin baskets, two institutions long associated with holiday traffic and highway congestion. On Saturday, an ...
The job of toll booth operators is fast disappearing, replaced by E-ZPass and other electronic monitoring. As motorists without E-ZPass pass through the toll booth, their license plates are ...
The toll booth operators on the Tappan Zee Bridge aren't short on stories about the travelers that make their way across the Hudson — and it's them they say they will miss when the toll ...
Less than a year and a half after the privatization of the Indiana Toll Road, toll booth operators will be voting on joining the Teamsters union. Teamsters Local 142 wants to bring toll-takers ...
Two clocks hang from the toll booth plaza at the Atlantic Beach Bridge, sandwiched between signs reading "CORRECT TIME." Both are broken. The frozen timepieces are as good a symbol as any for the ...
The Tacoma News Tribune reports that the state’s recently passed transportation budget could put in motion a plan to convert some toll booths into convenience stores, or even drive-thru coffee ...
Although some residents are rejoicing, others are saddened by the toll’s closing due to losing their jobs as toll booth operators. “I’ve got about had about 18 employees here and all of ...