Hi Paul I was in your area the first week that your new toll road started collecting tolls. The provision for manual payment was laughable at best. Park your car, step out and wait in the long queue to pay. OK in the summer. Must be very frustrating in the winter, yes? Did the toll road planners factor in the cost of the parking lot, used while making a manual payment? Why not collect the manual tolls as loose coins, tossed into a basket, whilst driving past? That's bound to net more cash than the current system. Now, to keep this on topic, that toll road takes you to the Puhoi River. A pleasant little beginners paddle with a pub upstream, mangroves and a fine park near the river mouth. Gary (in Victoria BC) -----Original Message----- >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... >Who was it who said the aim of government is to create jobs for governmental employees ? >Best Regards >Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 15 2009 - 04:06:16 PDT
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