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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: The free market (and lemons)
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 23:27:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 23:27:00 1986
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>/* franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) /  2:05 pm  Jan  3, 1986 */

>I really want to know what "electronic road-pricing" is.  Does one attach
>some sort of device to each car?  Does one photograph licence plates and
>send bills to their owners?  Something else?

I'm sorry, but I really don't have any technical information on it, but if
I see anything else on it I'll post.

>So the choice between governmental and private solutions depends on the
>situation.  It may well be that private (if a privately owned public
>utility counts as private) enterprise is viable to run the roads in Hong
>Kong, because the authority can get sufficient access to all the cars
>which will be driving there, and/or to their owners, yet be nonviable
>elsewhere.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "sufficient access?"  I would
assume that if a driver uses a road and doesn't pay hia/her bill, that would be
treated similarly to a case of a consumer not paying a bill in general.

>Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka

Mike Sykora