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Planitizen website has a video on congestion pricing posted (see link at bottom) that will reinforce public opinion against the concept - though its authors seem to see it as a promotion. Produced by Streetfilms with the subtitle "Moving Beyond the Automobile" it features Sam Schwartz standing in New York City streets and it dwells on the example of the zonal congestion pricing in London.

It's almost an iron law that health follows wealth, as explained vividly by this short video by Hans Rosling on BBC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&feature=player_embedded

It's an impressive example of how to use visual aids to illustrate statistics.

TOLLROADSnews 2010-12-03

Center for Freedom & Prosperity in DC has put out a great little video on how federal politicians laid the groundwork for the financial crisis that has rocked the US economy.

Failure of vehicle separation gear has been the bane of automatic toll collection. And the toughest 'separation' challenge is detecting a towbar, whether the equipment deploys overhead or sidefire lasers or video, or uses in-pavement electromagnetic sensors. They all work fine in detecting the mass of a continuous vehicle, but can have trouble 'seeing' a towbar.

ATI has issued a formal Request for Information (RFI) seeking a comprehensive solution for using license plate images (video) as the basis for inter-authority toll charges across North America.

Confidentiality designed to protect government workers in California from harassment by criminals is being abused to allow them to avoid toll enforcement, reports the Orange County Register newspaper (2008-04-04). The Register did a major investigation of what is called the Confidential Records Program, a law enacted in 1978 which allowed police and other law officers' home addresses and those of their relatives to be omitted from the state motor registry database.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has launched an extraordinary lawsuit to  suppress leaked video of a car crashing into the Egg Harbor toll plaza and bursting into flames on the Garden State Parkway on the morning of May 10. This after the video has been shown on local TV and posted to dozens of websites and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people in the intervening two weeks.