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2012-05-15: The future of South Africa's all-electronic toll system is in serious question following a court injunction against the planned start of tolling, and the resignation of Nazir Alli, the longtime chief executive of SANRAL (South Africa National Roads Authority Ltd,) the national government's toll authority.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has written Andrew Cuomo the New York state governor lambasting the decision to abandon planning for a rebuild and modernization of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Gowanus Expressway (GE), both NY/I-278 and urging they be financed with a public private partnership and pension fund i

Good police work on the West Virginia Turnpike allowed a trio of politicians to stage a publicity generating protest against toll increases while preventing threatened obstruction.

Minor disruptions were produced yesterday in a toll protest in which drivers were asked by local politicians to pay in pennies (one cent pieces) in Merrimack New Hampshire. In the morning rush hour the protest flopped.

Toll collectors and coin machines appeared to handle the penny payments just fine, and traffic flowed through the toll plazas as usual.

Poor Lockheed —  a public flogging