Golden Gate Bridge to collect tolls electronically by Sept 2012
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is already famous but there might be some changes pretty soon as a $2.9 million plan to replace the bridge’s 30 full-time toll workers with a fully electronic system has been approved. Considering the rate at which technology is moving forward, such a move isn’t surprising at all. The existing FasTrak subscription RFID transponder system will continue to function and the plan is to save about $19.2 million by the year 2020 in salaries and benefits, since robots generally don’t earn salaries (just yet). If everything goes according to plan, the toll booths could be abandoned by September 2012.
