detolling
Anti-toll Dem govt in Japan finds free roads unaffordable and congested - scaling back detoll
Posted on Sun, 2010-08-01 21:14
Anti-toll Democrats in Japan who got into government August 2009 promising free roads are finding that detolling is difficult. Most of Japan's expressways were built as tollroads, initially government-owned, later privatized as regulated investor owned utilities. So to end tolls the government has to pay massive compensation to the toll companies.
Japan Democrats say will keep tolls wherever there's danger of congestion
Posted on Sun, 2009-09-06 21:54
Japan's Democrat Party, soon to become the government following a sweeping election
victory, are rapidly retreating from their detolling campaign theme. A prominent member of the new governing party Mabuchi Sumio has said the plan for nation's expressways is to do traffic modeling of all segments.
Washington Crossing Bridge on the Delaware River (HISTORY) UPDATED
Posted on Tue, 2008-11-18 00:35
A little history is prompted by this nice picture of "a bridge on the Delaware River" we found on the web by a local photographer. It is confirmed by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission as their Washington Crossing Bridge 8 miles (13km) upstream of Trenton.
Tay and Forth bridges in Scotland lost to tolling - great crew laid off
Posted on Sat, 2008-02-16 11:56Adam Smith is turning in his grave. Pandering politicians in his native Scotland have sadly put an end
- for now - to tolling on two of the country's big bridges. There are a couple of veteran toll crews available, and like Scots down the ages, they'll travel to the far reaches of the world for new opportunities. Talent hunters in South Africa, India, Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, Chile, and the US pay attention.
ILLINOIS:Tolling, Detolling, or Just Venting?
Posted on Mon, 2000-01-31 22:00ILLINOIS:Tolling, Detolling, or Just Venting?
Originally published in issue 46 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 2000.
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