I wish Mr. Poole would ‘retire’, once and for all. He publishes this garbage EVERY YEAR, and the reaction is always the same - WE DON’T WANT IT! We don’t want the tracking system and behavior control that comes from real-time tolling, and we don’t want the tolling in the first place.
If he loves those foreign systems so much, why doesn’t he just move there and quit making us have to suffer through his pencil-neck view on how to improve the latest form of Communism...or whatever.
Roads are basically communist now. A truly collective endeavor, even when privatized, since the slowest driver on a road can make things miserable for dang near anybody behind him.
As for pencil-neck, I take it you saw his picture in the original article?
How is it that we're OK with "tolling" when it comes to electricity and gas, but not when it comes to highways?
And Rick Perry (R-TX) planned to sell off our toll roads for a quick cash fix (to a company in Spain, with non-compete clauses to prevent construction of free feeder roads or alternate routes).
Our assets are on the chopping block at liquidation prices (and that goes for parks and stadiums and convention centers, etc.).