here in massachusetts, along with the big dig that rest of the country paid 14 billion for, we have a road called the mass turnpike. It was supposed to become free after the tolls paid for its construction, but once it was paid for they just kept charging tolls. lovely.
Anyway, all that aside, they instituted transponders for cars so we can pay our tolls automatically. You have to pay something like 20 bucks for the transponder tho, plus I don't care for the government knowing where I've been. so for that, and being a cheapskate, I have never bought a transponder.
Trouble is, the road was designed for everyone to stop at the toll booths, but now you have some people stopping at the booths and others just slowing down to 30 mph . . . and after the toll booths, you have to try and merge back into traffic. The fastlanes and the stop-and-pay-cash booths are mixed together willy-nilly. so when you pull out from the stop booth, you need to merge with someone in the next lane who may be cruising thru the booth next to you at 30+mph. Even if it looks like no one is coming, you can't really tell. 8 lanes converge to 4 within 50 yards, and all at different speeds . . . oh well, at least the toll booths aren't crashing down on my head.
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