In one section, a toll taker is frightened by a barking dog, without leash or muzzle, that seems to be about to spring through an open car window.
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When everyone else was, say, cruising through the tollbooth at the Throgs Neck Bridge, they would be sitting there because their father was chatting up the toll taker.
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A list of the most boring occupations would probably have to include assembly-line worker, data processor, security guard, parking-lot attendant, toll taker and cashier.
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The toll taker, the coked-up family man, the banker, the Promise Keeper, the Ecstasy-popping mom-- they all live on his twisted ark.
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"It has a rotten egg smell and it gives you a sore throat and makes you lightheaded, " said another toll taker who did not want to be named.
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The class is an effort to instill in the toll takers the idea that they are the " ambassadors " for the authority, the only employee most drivers ever see.
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At the time reports of tunnel air problems were reported in the press, it was unclear to OSHA who _ workers, toll takers, commuters _ had been exposed, Gordon said.
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After the classroom instruction, the new employees will spend one day observing a veteran toll taker, another day sharing duties with the experienced worker and a third day taking tolls under supervision.
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On a personal note, I hope all the Golden Gate Bridge toll takers come through this OK . They are the greatest people in the world, at least in three-second interactions.
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"The main reason people want this automatic toll collection is they think toll collectors are the ones backing up the traffic, " said five-year Bay Bridge toll taker LaVonne Thomas.
