But the key benefit of congestion tolling is its positive impact on the environment.
In Germany, meanwhile, some lorry drivers have used jammers to evade the country's GPS-based road-tolling system.
Second, cashless tolling gives cities the flexibility to change toll rates according to demand and to shift traffic patterns.
But Mr Obama has shown no interest in pushing for a change in the interstate tolling rule.
Critics said they were still not convinced tolling was an alternative to paying for the scheme using taxes.
The company has already lost 2.7 billion rand in revenue due to earlier postponements of the e-tolling scheme.
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No economy is an island and one as open as Britain's will be diminished by the bell tolling in Europe.
On still evenings, some say that you can hear the tolling of its church bells carried in on the ocean breeze.
Across Massachusetts, the silence was broken by the tolling of church bells.
"With tolling, the cost to the taxpayer is lower, " the spokesman said.
So the government persuaded him to sign an annual tolling agreement, which allowed the feds to stop the clock and build a stronger case.
We could start the transition today, using existing low-cost all-electronic tolling (transponders and license-plate imaging) on all limited-access highways, such as Interstates and expressways.
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Most of Russia's aluminium plants operate by tolling, meaning that they rent out capacity to third parties, who deliver ore and take back metal.
Tolling is economically efficient: it prices an overused resource (crowded roads).
Congestion tolling saves motorists an enormous amount of time that would otherwise be spent stuck in traffic, thereby reducing stress, saving fuel, and making trip times much more predictable.
The government said tolling would make a significant contribution.
Responding to Conservative MP Angie Bray he ruled out road charging for existing roads, but said he was "open to suggestion" on funding new roads through private capital supported by tolling or charging.
After a moment of silence, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the tolling of a bell, family members and friends began reading the names of the 2, 603 victims who died at the World Trade Center.
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"It could be part public, part private, it could be a tolling option on single or multiple lanes or it could be a leasing option like what we currently have between Huntingdon and Peterborough, " says Jonathan Djanogly.
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Before the 20, 000-cast event kicks off on 27 July at 21:00 BST, with the tolling of the bell, an Olympic Stadium packed with 80, 000 spectators will be entertained by a pre-show that will start at 12 minutes past eight - 20:12 BST.
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By levying fines, the agency was able to recoup virtually all of the toll revenue lost to drivers who simply drove through the E-ZPass lanes without paying, said Bob Redding, senior director of new tolling initiatives for the MTA's Bridges and Tunnels Agency.
The opponents include the prominent Swiss-based (but Russia-linked) Trans World Group, which says that a ban on tolling is impractical, because Russian firms cannot be sure of always having the hard currency to pay for the continuous supply of imported ore they need.
Advanced satellite tracking technologies allow "open road" tolling, in which motorists would be charged per mile of road used -- just as consumers are charged per kilowatt hour for electricity, per gallon of water, or per minute of cell phone use -- without the backup at the toll booth.
One of my favorite TV programs of all times was Little House on the Prairie, besides the wholesome message of family and community I especially loved to see how the men and woman labored from sunrise, tolling all day but always seemed to wind down and be in bed by sundown.
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