OCNJ Daily reports, yesterday, the Cape May County (New Jersey) Bridge Commission, operator of five seashore toll bridges, announced that its transition to cashless toll collection will take place on May 10. The agency decided last September to convert to all-electronic tolling as an efficiency and cost-saving measure. About 90 percent of its transactions are already processed through E-ZPass. Although the commission will no longer need toll collectors, it plans to retain about a dozen of those employees as part-time drawbridge tenders.
A commission official noted that the contractual date for conversion to AET was originally April 1, but Conduent, the New Jersey E-ZPass vendor, recently rescheduled it citing work in progress on other projects.