Correct that there should be no physical toll booths you pull up to and pay at. Most likely you'd get a RFD card mounted on your windshield and there would be scanners for them mounted above the roadway.
It is also important to note they are proposing these as HOT lanes, with HOV potentially not having to pay to use them (they also mention perhaps paying a smaller toll). So the question then becomes how does an RFD scanner know if you are a single occupant vehicle one day (and charge $5) and car-pooling the next (and not charge you or charge the reduced rate)?
I did chuckle a little about how this proposal will "take away" a lane of road for those that don't want to pay or be HOV; on the busiest roads in Calgary, and yet the minor 2% of lanes removed from the CBD for the cycle track ignited humongous debate.
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