Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by IshKebab on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:34AM
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Rubbish. I guess this happened to you once somewhere and now you think it is a 'strategy', but the only automatic toll I can think of is the London congestion charge and everyone knows about that.
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Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by madaxe_again on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:35AM
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Liverpool, merseyflow, and I’m a long way from alone - there’s one sign, a website (merseyflow.co.uk) with major availability and usability issues, and they charge a toll on both the old (used to be toll free) and new bridges.
The first month of operation generated £1M of revenue from fines alone. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li...
The same article asserts a revenue of £50m+/yr from fines for dartford - same administering firm. With toll barriers this revenue would have been zero.
Looks pretty strategic to me.
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by shawabawa3 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:20AM
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There's the dartmouth bridge crossing, where there are about 50 signs either side saying "PAY YOUR TOLL ONLINE OR FACE A PENALTY"
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by zimpenfish on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:33AM
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Minor nit: It's the Dartford Bridge Crossing, not Dartmouth (which is in Devon).
Although, bizarrely, if you enter "dartmouth bridge crossing" into Google, it'll return the Dartford one.
Re:$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
by zimpenfish on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:35AM
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As mentioned below, Dartford Crossing (bridge + tunnel) is an automatic toll (using ANPR).
There are also a few other places which use ANPR for charging (Betteshanger Country Park car parking springs to mind) but I don't think you can consider those "tolls" in the traditional sense of the word.