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How to beat Bay Area bridge tolls

small_5D0D0945-3048-2F0A-AA80287ABD87E8F1.jpgToday's San Francisco Examiner helpfully reports that drivers who simply whiz through the FasTrak lanes without a pass aren't being punished, or even identified. "We're basically hoping drivers will be decent human beings," says a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which manages the seven FasTrak bridges in the Bay Area. (The Golden Gate Bridge is managed separately.) 112,295 drivers — not sure if that counts repeats — flew though the gateless toll stations without being caught in November, because their license plates weren't readable. 49,013 more escaped because of equipment malfunctions. The upshot of the Examiner's report: The MTC isn't about to start cracking down. Go for it, cheapskate.
(Photo by the San Francisco Examiner)

5:00 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Paul Boutin
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