On 21-Jan-12 14:16, tim.... wrote:
"Stephen Sprunk" wrote in message
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On 21-Jan-12 00:13, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
Even toll roads in the USA are enforced by photographs of licence plates

No one enforces toll collection with photographs of license plates as
the primary system of enforcement. It supplements transponders.

That depends on what you mean by "primary". CTRMA (Austin, TX) and NTTA
(Dallas/Ft Worth, TX) give discounts for using a transponder, but those
without are simply billed by mail at the cash rate. As long as the bill
is paid on time, there are no fines.

how does all this work with rental cars?

In general, they send the bill to the registered owner of the car. A
rental car agency sends them back the contact information of the persons
who had rented the car at the specified dates and times on the bill, and
new bills are sent to those persons.

If you get a rental car at the airport, there is also an optional
program where you pay a flat rate per day, to be included in your rental
bill. If you paid for that option, the rental car company pays your
tolls rather than redirecting your part of the bill. (And the flat rate
is high enough they'll nearly always turn a profit doing so.)

The last time I drove on a turnpike I handed over a dollar bill to a man in
a kiosk

NTTA has closed all their cash lanes and is currently demolishing the
booths. CTRMA has kept their cash lanes open, but they are unstaffed
now and only accept coins; there is a sign on the machines saying "Don't
have correct change? Keep moving and we'll bill you!"

S

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