It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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The tollway agency announced a plan back in March to lay off 147 workers. The news came as the union continues negotiating for a new contract.
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Retrain those staff to work in the iPass contact center to sell iPass, answer questions from customers and deal with billing issues. If they don’t want to do that, fill pot holes…but collecting tolls is over.
And fire the staff doing that already?
There’s a glut of employee’s they should have been looking for jobs as they sat on their a… for the last 4 years!
Cut all there jobs duplicates upon duplicate jobs all tollways are automated. Since all toll booths are automated another fleecing of Illinois taxpayers
The reason why they went automated…to stop the theft of our toll way dollar’s.
https://qconline.com/news/illinois/trucking-scandal-figure-quarters-boyle-gets-seven-years-in-federal-pen/article_6ade298c-8077-548f-b309-d487f401905e.html A politically connected former city worker who pleaded guilty to taking payoffs from truckers who wanted city business was sentenced Friday to seven years in federal prison . Prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman to impose a stiff sentence on John “Quarters” Boyle because Boyle went to prison in 1992 for stealing $4 million mostly in quarters from the Illinois tollway and paid back only $720. “What this man is is a liar, a cheat and a thief,” prosecutor Manish Shah said. “The people of Chicago have suffered with him on the payroll. He became, frankly, a… Read more »
Would be cheaper to disband Tollway Authority, convert tollways to freeways. Tolls mostly pay for duplicate highway services and payroll/pension costs.
The article is unclear; are all 147 workers tollbooth operators? If so, why are they needed when every toll booth (at least that I’ve passed through) is automated Are these office workers? Doing what?
Collecting paychecks.