You know those nice people that take your money and, if needed, give you back some change when coming over the Golden Gate Bridge? Yeah, don’t get too attached. In an effort to decrease the deficit, a plan has been proposed to replace the toll workers with machines and electronic readers.

SFist reports that “district administrators, who are facing an $89 million deficit, will be proposing to the Golden Gate Bridge board of directors on Thursday a plan in which tolls would only be collected electronically starting in 2012, via FastTrak and through vehicle license plates.”

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