oh, and did you hear about the dulles toll road fiasco?

[acroyear]

It turns out that most of those boxes that are meant to be taking pictures of toll-booth-runners (especially in the smart-tag only lanes) are actually empty and thus people have been running through the booths with impunity?  they won't get filled with real cameras for a few months from now, and they actually said that on WTOP, thus inviting people to run the booths.

sheesh...when you have something that revealing and inviting to criminals, mr government man, do yourself a favor and keep your damn trap shut.

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[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

They also noted that when a violation does occur, lights and sirens go off, and if a booth worker is able to get the licence number, the violator will be ticketed.

you don't take those toll booths, do you?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

at 30-mph a boothie isn't able to read it fast enough and not also ignore their own toll line that's some 5-10 cars long and getting angrier.

at the main booths at rt 7, the smarttag lanes are on the far side, with 2 exact change only lanes in between them and the manned boths, and cars routinely go through at 50-60 mph. there's no way a booth teller is going to read a thing.

and at night, they're half unmanned anyways.