This press release just in...
ATLANTIC CITY (AP) -- Atlantic City's Expressway will stop accepting money at its toll plazas by the end of 2010.
The highway will use E-ZPass and video tolling instead.
Video tolling uses cameras to capture license plate numbers and motorists who don't have E-ZPass are billed for the toll.
The South Jersey Transportation Authority says toll collectors won't lose their jobs. Instead, they'll be trained to fill other jobs that become vacant with the agency.
Tuesday's cashless toll announcement came on the same day the expressway raised tolls for the first time in a decade.
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Information from: The Press of Atlantic City, http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com
This will never work...do you really think people are going to pay a toll bill they receive in the mail?
How much will it cost to mail them a bill?
And do you really believe toll collectors won't be laid off?
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This is strangleholding taxpayers into using the ezpass system. Anybody who received a mailed bill will either be forced to pay it or face increasing fines. While there would likely be an online system to pay for the tolls this is possibly the worst idea as people shouldn't have to be inconvenienced when the alternative of paying cash to a toll collector is much more logical.
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