Fri, 06 Feb 1998 03:26:40 +0100
- Message No. 2109
From: Jorn Ronnow
Subject: Re: a question about Norway
At 16:00 98-02-05 +0100, Ludo wrote:
>in Belgium there are plans to let drivers pay for using the road
>during peak hours in the morning and the evening. It's intended to
>diminish the traffic jams that are growing every day. Therefore the amount
>will be set rather high (2 x 200 Bef./day = 20 DEM/day) in order to
>encourage people to do carpooling, use public transport, move closer to
>their work...
Chances are that the REAL effect will be that those who can, will change
their working hours, so that they can travel on off-peak hours.
I wonder how well the automated payment system would survive a powerful
magnetron (like the ones in mocro wave ovens and radars) aimed at it,
running on full output?
Keep sliding
-Jorn
dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de