Jericho is Planning Toll Booths
by correspondent Bernie Paquette of the Jericho News Tablet
April 1, 2025
Jericho has come up with an innovative approach for speed control and to recoup costs for road maintenance.
“Road maintenance is a large part of the town’s budget”, a town representative declared. “With more and more thoroughfare traffic, passers through need to contribute to the upkeep.”
The town planning and road departments and a volunteer group interested in speeding countermeasures met monthly over the winter to discuss ideas.
One plan is complete, with installation expected by mid-spring.
Phase one includes installing permanent pneumatic road tubes to collect traffic data, including vehicle counts, speeds, and vehicle classification/identification.
Phase two will install toll booths on each end of Skunk Hollow Road and Browns Trace.
The gate at the tool booths will remain open to traffic traveling within the speed limit as measured by the road tubes further up the road. Any car that goes over the road tube faster than the speed limit will activate a signal to close the gate when that car approaches the toll booth.
Tolls will be assessed based on how much over the speed limit that car was going.
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*Passers through = Folks from other towns.