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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by mattlondon on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:10PM (#36274567)
I worked on the technical implementation of one of the London Congestion Charge contracts many years ago.

It was a huuuuuuge loss for IBM to implement, but I think their position was "we make a loss here, but then just need to do a search-and-replace for "London" to New York/Paris/Tokyo/Los Angeles and profit!" (I.e. no significant extra development). Suffice to say that didn't happen - it was built with zero customisation in mind. I personally blame it on the insistence that SAP was to be used for processing payments etc.

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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by ricktdotorg on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:12PM (#36274599)
interesting! where did the SAP requirement originate? uk.gov not IBM?
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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by mattlondon on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:41AM (#36278120)
I think it was from the client.
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