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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Nature's Revenge (toll booths vs. cars)
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:43:01 GMT
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- [Chicago toll road vs. NJ Turnpike, another toll road]
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- [Chicago: a toll plaza every 15 minutes]
-
- [NJ Turnpike, toll plazas only at entrances and exits; one
- gets a card when entering telling where one entered and tolls at each
- exit]
-
- The Pennsylvania Turnpike also works like that, though I've
- never been in contact with the card part. But that card reminds me of
- the automatic fare system of BART, the Washington Metro, and some
- other urban rapid-transit railroads. One puts some money into a ticket
- machine and gets a ticket with that amount of money in it. When one
- enters, one puts the ticket into a faregate, and the gate opens for
- you. The same when one leaves, and the faregate prints on your ticket
- how much you have left.
-
- The NJ and PA Turnpike systems work well when there are not
- too many entrances/exits per unit distance, which is generally the
- case in thinly populated areas. But for urban and suburban roads, that
- is clearly not the case, which is perhaps one reason why toll roads
- are not more common -- one would need lots of toll plazas.
-
- /Loren
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