Welcome to mornings on 2 and during this coronavirus pandemic unexpected side effect of the pandemic shut down is getting rid of cash tolls and the toll takers on the bridges. The chronicle reports this has been in the works for some time and efforts to put the plan into action have been ramping up. Leaders from the metropolitan Transportation Commission hope to have an all electronic cash plan to look at. The ultimate goal is to make the switch by the end of the year. We drive across bay area bridges and it will be weird you know to have this Going Forward where we will not have any people in those little booths. I am assuming thises has to do with financial and health. But especially these days, more and more, i seek out human contact and i chose to stand in line at target to be cashed out instead of self check out. So, i think about the people who have been working as toll takers and may look for Something Else to do. You never want someone to lose their job. I remember when the Gol
Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight i want to mention other programming we have coming up on thursday per code next week on tuesday we host former poet laureate along with a few contributors for his new anthology next wednesday we are hosting for the atlantis boston history many more events coming up you can find more information up by the registers when you pick up 19 century protest book page magazine well written in interviews that deserves a livelier but this is a general audience too vividly portrays this is essential reading for how the us became what it is today Holly Jackson and associate professor of massachusetts bostons in the New York Times Washington Post and boston globe as well as other venues the author of one previous book a scholarly study of family values in 19 century American Literature and culture living in cambridge massachusetts we are glad to have one have he
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