The blue call boxes along the Pennsylvania Turnpike may become a thing of the past.
The turnpike commission tracks how many call boxes are used annually. There are 1,000 boxes, placed a mile apart, along the 550-mile-long highway.
In 2000, over 18,000 deployments were made. Last year (2014), that number was down to just over 1,000.
The obvious reason for the decreased usage is the popularity of cell phones. The commission is considering whether it’s time to scale back one of the nation’s last and largest emergency call box systems.
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