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Old 11-01-2010, 08:58 AM   #135
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Originally Posted by Clarkey View Post
Are you a fan of installing toll booths on Deerfoot and Crowchild too?
While I have joked in the past about that idea, I really don't think it'd be that hard to put into practice with RFID tags. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-f...ion#Toll_roads
Pass a new law, incorporate the tags into the registration stickers on licence plates, mount readers on sign posts along the roads and presto! instant toll road. As mentioned before, Deerfoot is a provincial road, so Calgary probably can't turn that into a toll road, but I find the idea interesting. I bet a combination of tolls and Intercity transport would lessen bedroom communities' commuter traffic on City roads.
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