Number of Bay Area Call Boxes to Be Cut
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Roadside emergency phones will become fewer and farther between along Bay Area highways under a plan approved by the region’s transportation agency.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission voted to remove about 1,350 emergency call boxes on the advice of the agency’s freeway and expressway service panel.
The first phones could be disconnected as soon as July, leaving behind 2,150 and saving the agency about $4.7 million over five years. Fewer motorists use the phones because more are using cell phones in emergencies.
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