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Paying on the Highway to Get Out of First Gear by noteworthy at 11:28 am EDT, Apr 30, 2005
Social engineering is merging with traffic engineering, creating new technologies that charge people a variable toll based on how many cars are on the road -- known as congestion pricing -- or reduce toll rates for high occupancy to encourage car-pooling. It is shaping up as one of the biggest philosophical changes in transportation policy since the toll-free interstate highway system was created under President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.
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RE: Paying on the Highway to Get Out of First Gear
by Catonic at 1:22 pm EDT, May 1, 2005

noteworthy wrote:
] Social engineering is merging with traffic
] engineering, creating new technologies that charge people
] a variable toll based on how many cars are on the road --
] known as congestion pricing -- or reduce toll rates for high
] occupancy to encourage car-pooling.
]
] It is shaping up as one of the biggest philosophical changes
] in transportation policy since the toll-free interstate
] highway system was created under President Dwight D.
] Eisenhower in 1956.

Howabout let's do something useful with these thoughts -- turn the toll roads into autobahns. If I could drive to columbia SC for $15 and do 120MPH, I'd be there in a heartbeat. Since they would be "private" roads, you could get away with this.