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In article <1993Feb12.200243.24990@ee.ubc.ca> edc@ee.ubc.ca (Ed Casas) writes:
>In <1lgqpiINNn8r@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
>
>> ... nobody seems to be thinking about the effect that
>> collecting these tolls would have.  The North Shore approaches,
>> the only place tolls could be collected and the site of the old
>> plaza, are totally filled with merging traffic at today's
>> volumes.  There would be a massive job to do constructing a
>> new plaza and, more important, massive dislocation of rush hour
>> traffic.  ...
>
>There are new-fangled schemes for collecting tolls that don't
>require that cars slow/stop at toll booths.  They usually involve
>reading a gizmo on the car by radio.  People who use the bridge
>regularly (the large majority) put said gizmos on their cars
>while out-of-towners and people-scared-of-radiation queue up for
>the old-fashioned quarter-collectors.
>
>-- 
>Ed Casas (edc@ee.ubc.ca)

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