Toll Roads without Toll Booths

C. E. White · 2010-08-17T12:40:06+00:00

I am in North Carolina. The scum sucking politicians have finally given into corporate theives and decided to allow toll roads. Don't get me started on the unfairness of a state that has one of the highest gas taxes in the nation deciding they need to double charge some people for using some roads.... Any how, the toll road they are building in my area is not going to have toll booths. Instead they plan to electronically monitor traffic to charge the tolls. They are encouraging people who will regularly use the toll road to get an electronic pass that will alert the system when your vehicle uses the road. For vehicles that do not have the electronic pass they claim they will be able to read your licence plate and use that to send you a bill (even if you are out of state). They plan to charge more for vehicles that are billed based on licence plate detection. The local TV station recently ran a segment featureing the toll road head crook and he made all sorts of claims about the accuracy (and "fairness") of the system. Setting aside the difficulty in charging out of state residents, is it possible that this system can actually work? North Carolina does not require front licence plates. It seems to me, all I have to do to avoid paying the toll when I am driving my pickup is to leave the rear tailgate down. The plate is partially covered with mud half the time and between a little mud and the tailgate down, I can't see how any camera can possibly read the plate. I suppose if I did this reguarly, the toll road authority would take notice of my truck and send the Highway Patrol after me, but I don't intned to ever use the toll road (in fact, I hope no one uses it and the corporation the crook are allowing to build the road goes broke). However, I do wonder about the hundreds of local dump trucks that cruise around the area with no rear licence plates........are they going be allowed to use the road for free? The whole thing seems wacko to me......

Aug 17, 2010 21 Replies

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cuhulin 15 years ago

It has been since 1992 or 1993 since I have been to Houston.That was when I visited Mexico for five days.I suppose some things have changed. cuhulin

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hls 15 years ago

The beltways are Loop 610 and Sam Houston Tollway (aka Beltway 8). They take money or EZ Tag payments.

There are also a couple of tollroads, Westpark and Hardy. These two, I believe, do not allow payment of tolls except by EZ tag (but I am not

100% sure of this).

You might have been thinking about Kuykendal (pronounced locally as Kerken-dall). It isnt even in the running for high speed anymore, IMO.

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