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Originally Posted by secondcurve
The state of NH transportation department has certainly been slow on toll plaza decisions in recent years. First, it took them forever to get with the Fast Lane program; I think NH was the last state on the east coast to join! Then they cut out the tokens cold turkey. Why couldn't the state just stop selling the tokens but still accept them? Over a relatively short period of time, the tokens would come out of circulation. I thought maybe it was a way to screw the tax payers, but now I am hearing that there might be a program to redeem the tokens. Help me understand?
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Your solution above seemed the logical way to phase out the system to me. What I read was that the old system was a pain and a $ drain to keep up and running and so the powers that be wanted it shutdown ASAP. Perhaps that's true but I don't see how the additional cost of token capability would be that much more than the coin collecting ability. Also SP's earlier idea of "face value" would have been fair.