> Sounds like the problem here is the graft, not the technology.
Hah! Welcome to reality.
> Does anybody have info on the EZPass system used here
> in New York?
Here's the NY Times:
E-ZPass System Faces $65 Million Deficit, and Its Success Is Partly to Blame http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06EEDB163FF93AA35751C1A9669C8B63
"''The reality is that if you use something more it costs
more, and I think that's the situation we're in,'' said
James W. Weinstein Jr., the New Jersey transportation
commissioner."
Here's New Hampshire:
"In place only a week, the EZ-Pass program is already far
outstripping anticipated costs. The growing outlay is
one reason the state's top transportation official has
suspended all scheduled turnpike maintenance."
Here's New Jersey:
http://users.nac.net/jmp/tollfree/ezpass.html
"Do you know how much $488 million is? $50 for every man,
woman, and child in New Jersey! Money that will not be
used for road construction, maintenance, repair, or anything
of value, but only for "improved" ways of collecting our money.
Not only that, this money will be leaving New Jersey. The
E-ZPass contract was awarded to MFS Technologies of Omaha. So
much for the time honored argument that tolls bring in money
from out of state drivers. Now tolls take our money out of state!"
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/jordan