Highway toll stations close

Due to the arrival of electronic toll collection, on December 30, 2013, manned ticket collection became a thing of the past on the nation’s highways.

Correspondingly, tollbooths at all stations will be closed and are earmarked for demolition within twenty days.

The lonely Dounan toll station on Zhongshan Road, at the border of Chiayi and Yunlin is one such place, where ticket collectors reluctantly faced their final day on the job.
As employees punctually arrived to clock in for work, on the face of things, it appeared as though everything was normal.

However, when in addition to collecting fees, employees began exchanging hugs and consoling each other, it was clear that the familiar scene of people collecting fees at our tollbooths was indeed quickly fading into history.

V8 in hand, even the police were moved to record this part of transport history, for in the future, such scenes will only be available for view in recorded footage. 

Highway toll stations close
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高速公路人工收費站全面關閉 系列報導

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為因應電子收費時代的來臨，高速公路人工收費站，於12月30日凌晨全面關閉，站亭建築也將同步封鎖，預計20天內全數拆除，位於嘉義與雲林交界處的中山高速公路斗南收站，顯得離情依依與落寞，末代收費員執行最後一班勤務，猶如往常，準時上班打卡，也準時進到車道收費亭收費，收費員們彼此擁抱，彼此安慰，也彼此留下在高速公路的最後一張倩影，連公路警察也拿起V8記錄這段即將消失的交通歷史，往後要看到警車在收費亭前面值勤，恐怕得從紀錄影像尋找了。