Toll collectors

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Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Please correct me if I missed something, looking at that page does show a couple accidents all within the last few months. However, I didn't see one case of a toll collector being killed or even injured in any of those incidents.

I have no doubt that accidents are common. I've driven by at least a half dozen of them at tolls on the Pike over the last couple years.

But I'm curious when the last death or even injure to a toll collector was. Those booths have massive, reinforced barriers in front of them. A semi traveling at high speed *might* break through it, but any car would bounce right off.

Unless the incidence of injury is high, or there is a significant level of *proven* hazards (not some idiotic assumptions), then I see no reason why these people get paid over twice the average US citizen's income for a job that is essentially easier than working at McDonald's.

With the pathetic mismanagement of resources like this, it is no surprise that the Mass Transportation budget is hemorrhaging money.

Lets see how clean your pants are and how steady you're holding your coffee when a car comes to an abrupt stop about 10 feet away from you.

Ahhh, armchair warriors.