ABC7 News is reexamining the long-planned removal of toll booths after video shows a car wedged in between two of the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza booths in a solo crash.
Lanes are reopened at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza after a car appeared to be wedged in between two of the toll booths early Monday morning.A solo car crash at the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza impacted westbound traffic early Monday morning.Ambulance, fire and Caltrans crews were on scene. A person was being taken away on a stretcher but their condition is not known.Crews cleared the scene at 6 a.m.
Caltrans says it wants to upgrade the automatic toll collection system and remove the booths at the same time. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission - Bay Area Toll Authority says the Bay Bridge will be the final location of toll booth removal as it is the most complex."It is a tight squeeze and it's signed for slowing to 25 mph," Goodwin said. "Now, the upside to all of this, is that when the transition to open-road tolling is complete, there will no longer be any toll booths, no longer any need to slow down to squeeze through that narrow opening.
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