alt Hacker NewsIn the US a lot of the bridge tolls are automated, or became automated during the pandemic. With no going back.
You either have to create and account and register your vehicles by license plate, or you get a toll in the mail that must be paid either by mail or online.
I got behind on a few of these and got fined, I think maybe 5x the price tacked on.
I would love to just pay in cash each time I use an infrequenlty-crossed bridge.
Toll collection in most states used to be a mostly graft operation. They'd make insane salaries for what they did and the jobs would be handed out based on political connections. Basically welfare for the deadbead family members of the politically useful. In my state they had a union and it took forever to get rid of them. When they did get rid of them the tolls basically halved for no change in revenue because that's how much cash was going missing.