Toll collectors making six-figure salaries...

[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.

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The OWS should occupy the toll plazas!

[Tero]

Its obvious. The country is being ruined by toll creators school teachers and air traffic controllers. The 1% had nothing to do with it.

[Bella Fortuna]

Do not ask for whom the collectors toll... they toll for thee.....

[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.

[Coito ergo sum]

Do not ask for whom the collectors toll... they toll for thee.....

I loathe tolls. Loathe them.

[Bella Fortuna]

Do not ask for whom the collectors toll... they toll for thee.....

I loathe tolls. Loathe them.

The only one regularly in my life is the one into San Fran. It's a pain in the arse, but whaddayagonnado?

[Coito ergo sum]

Do not ask for whom the collectors toll... they toll for thee.....

I loathe tolls. Loathe them.

The only one regularly in my life is the one into San Fran. It's a pain in the arse, but whaddayagonnado?

If it were me, I'd just finance the road building and pay it out of the general fund. Tolls are just giant scams to play hide the ball with another kitty of money.

[Clinton Huxley]

I like the M6 toll road. It's always empty and you can go slightly faster than perhaps a strict interpretation of the law allows

[Coito ergo sum]

I like the M6 toll road. It's always empty and you can go slightly faster than perhaps a strict interpretation of the law allows

Look how nice our roads are. They're always empty.

[Tyrannical]

State employees should be banned from unionizing.

[Svartalf]

unionizing is covered under freedom of association, and NOBODY can be barred from that.

[Robert_S]

Naughty words:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Tyrannical]

unionizing is covered under freedom of association, and NOBODY can be barred from that.

No it's not.

Obviously the military can't unionize. I think teachers were barred from unionizing until the 1950s.

[Bella Fortuna]

State employees should be banned from unionizing.

But... but.... then I'd be out of a job.


Though there are days when I wish that was the case!

[Coito ergo sum]

The solution is to use the available technology to eliminate the need to pay someone to stick their hand out, grasp bills and coins, and make change.