/PRNewswire/ With traffic on Bay Area freeways rising as the COVID-19 pandemic eases its grip on the region, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Bay Area Toll Workers Displaced as Caltrans Goes Digital 250 Caltrans toll-booth workers will be replaced by automated systems at the end of July. No workers have yet been laid-off and the department is working to connect the displaced workers with new opportunities. Andrew Sheeler, The Sacramento Bee | April 9, 2021 | News
(TNS) An estimated 250 California Bay Area toll collectors won t be coming back to their booths, after the California Department of Transportation on Thursday announced that several bridges would be moving to all-digital toll collection.
Caltrans plans to eliminate the positions at the end of July, according to spokesman Bart Ney.
So far, no toll collectors have been laid off.
Good news, though! No heightened fire threat with this wind, said ABC7 News Meteorologist Mike Nicco.
In the East Bay Valleys, Nicco is focusing on a 12 hour period where winds will be gusting up to 40 to 60 miles per hour. As a result a Wind Advisory will be in effect Wednesday from 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.
An Wind Advisory will also be in effect in our higher elevations. It goes from Wednesday 10 a.m. through Thursday 4 a.m. in the North Bay Mountains, East Bay Hills, Diablo Range Hills and Mountains and Santa Cruz Mountains. Be careful out there!, said Nicco. We will have a north wind around 15 to 30 miles per hour, but the gusts of 40 to 60 that s what could cause potential problems.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) The new year meant the official start of an all-electronic toll collection for Bay Area bridges, including the Bay Bridge, according to the Bay Area Toll Authority.
Drivers will need to have a FasTrak or a license plate account when they go through toll booths on the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, Bay Bridge and San Mateo-Hayward bridges.
On Monday, Bay Area Toll Authority announced that a new all-electronic toll collection system will start after midnight New Yearâs Eve at the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael, San Francisco-Oakland Bay and San Mateo-Hayward bridges.
Customer who pay their tolls with a FasTrak tag or a license-plate account will see no difference in their statements, but drivers who are not enrolled in either program will also receive a monthly invoice for all toll bridge crossings from Friday on.
After cash toll collection was suspended on March 21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, these drivers were sent individual toll notices for each bridge crossing.