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Do they not have e-tags, cameras and registrations in this part of the world? I genuinely ask, since my assumption when using toll roads here is that the fine
by ACow_Adonis 9y ago
Do they not have e-tags, cameras and registrations in this part of the world?
I genuinely ask, since my assumption when using toll roads here is that the fine would find you pretty much as soon as you use the road...marginal errors and bugs aside.
- donatj 9y agoDo you need a tag to carpool where you are? Here in MN you do not, so it makes the HOV difficult to enforce, particularly because our Supreme Court decided you cannot be ticketed by camera. You basically have to have a cop car come up beside you.
- rdtsc 9y agoYou're supposed to have it now to get on this highway. Before there was no toll on it but it was all HOV-only during certain times of day. Now it is HOV or single drivers can pay apparently up to $40 use it too. Other roads in the area have manned toll plazas which accept cash.
- thaeli 9y agoOn this road, they're using e-tags that have a "HOV" switch on them. If you set it to "HOV mode", you're not charged a toll. The tag can't actually know how many people are in the car, so someone could cheat by setting their tag to HOV and driving without anyone else in the car. Hence the actual officers-pulling-people-over enforcement required. (They have readers in the police cars that tell them whether a vehicle's transponder is in HOV mode or not.)
- foota 9y agoI think the issue here is that you are allowed to enter free when carpooling.