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Very excited about this project getting underway. It will help connect Fuquay-Varina better to the northwest side of the action. Right now most people here go to Raleigh or Cary for things. This will open up going to Durham more easily.
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Very excited about this project getting underway. It will help connect Fuquay-Varina better to the northwest side of the action. Right now most people here go to Raleigh or Cary for things. This will open up going to Durham more easily.
Very excited about this project getting underway. It will help connect Fuquay-Varina better to the northwest side of the action. Right now most people here go to Raleigh or Cary for things. This will open up going to Durham more easily.
Very excited about this project getting underway. It will help connect Fuquay-Varina better to the northwest side of the action. Right now most people here go to Raleigh or Cary for things. This will open up going to Durham more easily.
But Charleston....remember....you are scared of Durham and Raleigh!
So if there are no tollbooths then someone traveling through the area from out of town can just drive through without paying anything? There has to be some way to collect money from those people and you need tollbooths for those who don't have EZ Pass or whatever, right?
There are many tollroads where the EZ Pass lanes get slowed or stopped because of the proximity of tollbooths next to them. Some have speed limit controls where you must slow down to 25MPH. Going through a section like that in rush-hour will lead to bottlenecks even though technically we don't have to stop. Ask anyone who drives in Chicago for a living and they'll tell you how bad toll-roads are. It all depends on the design...
It will be a cashless EZ-Pass-like system with overhead gantries that read your transmitter as you go underneath at highway speed. Blink and you'll miss it...no need to slow down as there's absolutely nothing to slow down for.
Those without transmitters will have photos of their license plates taken and be billed later. They'll pay 50% more than those with transmitters.
I would like to see 540 completed. The only way it will be in the next few decades is with tolls. I think this latest portion will be done but I doubt it would be done by 2013. I would add at least another 3-5 years.
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It will be a cashless EZ-Pass-like system with overhead gantries that read your transmitter as you go underneath at highway speed. Blink and you'll miss it...no need to slow down as there's absolutely nothing to slow down for.
Those without transmitters will have photos of their license plates taken and be billed later. They'll pay 50% more than those with transmitters.
That's the plan at least.
Would you suppose they will be able to beg off, claiming they were not the driver of the vehicle?
Like the red light cameras?
Would you suppose they will be able to beg off, claiming they were not the driver of the vehicle?
Like the red light cameras?
No...it's a different set of laws then red-light cameras. You are volenterly using the road and by doing so you are saying you are willing to pay the fee you are also not being caught breaking the law.
Isn't this his fifth or sixth incarnation at this point? How does he keep getting banned from the site so quickly?
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