"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 06/11/2012 14:36, Mizter T wrote:

On 06/11/2012 13:56, tim..... wrote:
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How does it "suck", and how would you do it?

For those people who don't travel through often enough to have a DART
tag (and for those who didn't realise that they don't have enough
credit), having to actively make a phone call, or go online to pay, at
some point after you have driven through, sucks. Why does that need any
explanation?

I would make an automated post payment system for registered cars the
default option, that way you wouldn't have to make sure that your
pre-payment card:, a) had enough credit, b) hadn't expired due to lack
of use.

Why on earth are you so sure that this isn't going to happen? My reading
of developments is that something just like you describe *is* going to
be implemented.

Just wondering, are you perhaps relying too much on some dodgy news
report, or taking its wording too literally? (I haven't read/seen/heard
any report on this issue in the past few days, but as ever one should take
reportage on such matters with a pinch of salt - little point getting
worked up about something that's inaccurate or unclear.)

You obviously don't live in the SE.

The plans have been widely reported locally in the past two days, by every
medium, because the department have just issued a press release about a new
consultation period. That consultation is just about the fines that should
be levied for non-payment, but necessarily includes the details of the
collection method that will be employed that incurs those fines. If
automatic post pay were an "approved" method ISTM that this would be there
as there is still a need for "fines" with that method.

and yes, I have been to the department's web site to check the up-to-date
details

tim