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Mass. Pike Toll Booths Are Soon Coming Down — And All-Electronic Tolling Is Coming Friday

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Close up of the toll gantry on the Mass. Pike located at Commonwealth Ave. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Close up of the toll gantry on the Mass. Pike located at Commonwealth Ave. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Friday is the last day that cold hard cash will be collected for tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

By Friday night, all tolling will be done electronically, with data collected from those gantries you've probably seen erected over the roadway across the length of the Mass. Pike.

To talk about the changes ahead, we met with state Department of Transportation Director Stephen Collins at the soon-to-be torn down and paved over toll plaza in Weston.

This segment aired on October 25, 2016.

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