On 21/01/2012 22:06, tim.... wrote:
"Stephen wrote in message
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On 21-Jan-12 14:16, tim.... wrote:
"Stephen wrote in message
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On 21-Jan-12 00:13, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Roland 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.

So they don't make some staggeringly high charge for doing this (like they
would in Europe)


In Denver paying the toll this way appeared to be a lot higher than the
'normal' charge. The whole system confused me enough that I didn't ever
bother using the toll road.

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Graeme Wall
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