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Speaker 1: Starting Sunday, mask dot will say goodbye to the rectangular

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Speaker 1: easy pass transponders and say hello to new easy pass stickers.

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Speaker 1: Mass dot says these will be provided free of charge.

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Speaker 1: Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver said at a board meeting this

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Speaker 1: week that these will have RFID capabilities.

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Speaker 2: This has a chip that's embedded into the paper. It

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Speaker 2: works on a like an RFID system, so it means

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Speaker 2: it's energized. As it passes underneath those those tolling gantries,

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Speaker 2: they can read it accurately, just like you kind of

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Speaker 2: regular transponder, and then you go on your way.

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Speaker 1: Mass dot says the stickers costs about fifty five cents

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Speaker 1: to make, while transponders cost over six bucks. This change

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Speaker 1: will save the state over seven point three million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year. Transponders will still work, so if you do

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Speaker 1: have one, mass DOOT says, you don't need to take

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Speaker 1: any action. Brooke McCarthy WBS Bosson's News radio