Toll collectors making six-figure salaries...

[eXcommunicate]

They take your cash . . . in so many ways.
Port Authority toll collectors not only grab your money at New York-New Jersey crossings, they’re now pulling down stunning six-figure salaries funded by the levies you pay at bridges and tunnels.
Twenty-four toll collectors at the bi-state agency have made more than $80,000 so far in 2011 — payments pumped up by massive overtime. Seven of those workers took in $90,000 or more.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/high ... z1gWcpLSFy

The OWS should occupy the toll plazas!

The quoted sums are 5 figures.

[JimC]

I'm asking why there is still such a profession...

Toll-by-plate is working all over the place. At most, there should be one toll-taker, or a very few, that are there to solve problems.

$100,000 a year, means 100,000 cars at a dollar each have to pass just to pay ONE GUY'S salary. Add to that all the other employees, and the maintenance and construction of toll buildings, etc., and all other operating costs, and you might as well tear the fuckers down and let people drive through for free.

Every toll road in Victoria certainly, and probably the rest of Oz, works by radio transponder...

If the US needs some help implementing modern technology, I'm sure we could find somebody to assist...

For a price...

[MrJonno]

Having a toll road where toll is just $1 ~ £0.60 does sound very silly, tolls have to be high enough to be worth collecting, typically they can be 10 times that for some tolls in the UK

[Coito ergo sum]

They take your cash . . . in so many ways.
Port Authority toll collectors not only grab your money at New York-New Jersey crossings, they’re now pulling down stunning six-figure salaries funded by the levies you pay at bridges and tunnels.
Twenty-four toll collectors at the bi-state agency have made more than $80,000 so far in 2011 — payments pumped up by massive overtime. Seven of those workers took in $90,000 or more.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/high ... z1gWcpLSFy

The OWS should occupy the toll plazas!

The quoted sums are 5 figures.

Yes, but the article stated "so far," at a point in time during the year when there was enough time left in the year where the annual pay would exceed $100,000....

[Coito ergo sum]

I'm asking why there is still such a profession...

Toll-by-plate is working all over the place. At most, there should be one toll-taker, or a very few, that are there to solve problems.

$100,000 a year, means 100,000 cars at a dollar each have to pass just to pay ONE GUY'S salary. Add to that all the other employees, and the maintenance and construction of toll buildings, etc., and all other operating costs, and you might as well tear the fuckers down and let people drive through for free.

Every toll road in Victoria certainly, and probably the rest of Oz, works by radio transponder...

If the US needs some help implementing modern technology, I'm sure we could find somebody to assist...

For a price...

We have that here in Florida, by the way. Just drive on through.

[Tyrannical]

I'm asking why there is still such a profession...

Toll-by-plate is working all over the place. At most, there should be one toll-taker, or a very few, that are there to solve problems.

$100,000 a year, means 100,000 cars at a dollar each have to pass just to pay ONE GUY'S salary. Add to that all the other employees, and the maintenance and construction of toll buildings, etc., and all other operating costs, and you might as well tear the fuckers down and let people drive through for free.

Every toll road in Victoria certainly, and probably the rest of Oz, works by radio transponder...

If the US needs some help implementing modern technology, I'm sure we could find somebody to assist...

For a price...

Not fun if you are a tourist.

But I look at it this way, everyone shops, and almost all goods travel along highways. Even if you don't own a car, you still benefit from them.

[JimC]

I have the transponder in my car, and it is turning me into a "free choice capitalist"

I decide whether I want to put up with the hassle of standard roads plus extra time, or pay some money and gain some benefits...

Seth would approve...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Massive amounts of overtime. We pay people for that shit.

[MrJonno]

Still think having a toll of $1 per car simply is too low to bother collecting

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Still think having a toll of $1 per car simply is too low to bother collecting

365 X $100,000.00 = um, uh, many dollars.

[MrJonno]

Still think having a toll of $1 per car simply is too low to bother collecting

365 X $100,000.00 = um, uh, many dollars.

If those figures is right is 36 million which taking into account costs may or may not be worthwhile.

We certainly wouldnt bother with such low tolls in the UK

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Still think having a toll of $1 per car simply is too low to bother collecting

365 X $100,000.00 = um, uh, many dollars.

If those figures is right is 36 million which taking into account costs may or may not be worthwhile.

We certainly wouldnt bother with such low tolls in the UK

...and your economy is doing good right now?

[MrJonno]

Still think having a toll of $1 per car simply is too low to bother collecting

365 X $100,000.00 = um, uh, many dollars.

If those figures is right is 36 million which taking into account costs may or may not be worthwhile.

We certainly wouldnt bother with such low tolls in the UK

...and your economy is doing good right now?

About as well as the US which to be honest is pretty shit

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Okay then. Self-sustaining services are a good idea or a bad idea?

[JimC]

If new roads can't be built without tolls, then I have no objection to the user pays principle in such cases, but electronic collection is so much more sensible than people in booths...

And sometimes it breaks down, and you get a free trip!