About three years ago on the autopista (the highway from Santiago to Santo Domingo) a toll booth was erected. It has never operated. The toll was going to be collected only in one direction (South). There are 3 lanes set up to collect the tolls. Some are exact change lanes that have the baskets into which you are supposed to throw the toll. So far they have only opened two lanes going south. All three are equipped with exact change baskets into which you throw your toll money, the purpose of which is to save time.Check out the installation of the one of the baskets. First, notice that the car on the right hand side. That car is at the same level as I am. Now move over to the left of the photo. I took this from my SUV, which sits pretty high. I have to look up quite far to see the basket. How could anyone possible get the money in their unless they were in a very large truck? But trucks are not allowed to use exact change lanes. People are going to have to get out of their cars and jump up to try to get the money in. That should do wonders for speeding up the flow of traffic.
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