We know tollbooths are becoming things of the past—what with electronic devices on our windshields that somehow extract money from our credit card….or however that works…but tollbooths still do exist—and while they do—the Can-Do has an idea to make them perform double duty!
Your state department of transportation knows how much money its tollbooths take in on an average day. What if every Tuesday was advertised as “Spare Change Tuesday”—and a state-certified charitable group was selected as the recipient of all the receipts above and beyond that average.
Breaking it down—
It’s Tuesday/morning rush hour on the tollway
You’re doing some mad carpool karaoke. Or not
Driver slows down at the flashing screen announcing “pay toll ahead.”
Same screen announces the group who will benefit on this “Spare Change Day”—Let’s say…Breast Cancer Research or Muscular Dystrophy Association…
You have some extra quarters in the car and it sounds like a good cause, so you toss in fifty cents more than the required toll. Maybe a few of your passengers also contribute. Doesn’t sound like much, but if 50,000 cars across the state matched your fifty extra cents, that’s an extra $25,000 at the end of the day donated to a good cause.
So before toll booths become a thing of the past, how about making drive through donations a thing of the present?
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Love this idea -- but with states being in such bad shape these days, will they reslly turn over "extra" money to others?
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