Paul Hayward wrote: > We were upset last week to hear that in the first 9 months of operation of a > new toll road - which had been very controversial (to toll or not to toll) - > the collection of the $2 toll had cost an average of $1.29. The > electronically-collected tolls did a little better, but the manually > collected ones cost well over $2 to collect. This had been predicted > accurately by the 'not-to-toll' faction, but ridiculed as preposterous... Ridiculous, isn't it? You'd think in an era when over-the-road trucking can be scanned at speed at weight stations via laser pick-offs from their transponders that a simpler, cheaper electronic system would be common. Go figure. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 07:12:51 PDT
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