And the other thing with the plate flipper is if you are running a red light and have time to flip a switch so you don't get a ticket, you probably have time to stop.
License plate blocker
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I know first hand that they do not take a front picture of your vehicle due to the reason i stated earlier.
Actually, they DO take pictures of the fronts of certain classes of vehicles, which is why there is a camera facing the fronts of oncoming traffic. Dig around some and you will find this right in 407ETR's own communications. While certain privacy issues were taken into account when designing the data collection and billing system, there are currently NO legal impediments to taking pictures of the fronts of vehicles.
no worries, no one's **** smell in this forum.
half-a-tiger
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It behooves me that people with bad/illegal intentions are still posting their stupidity on this website that everyone knows is closely monitored by you-know-who.
rideitlikeyoustoleit
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Explain how the 407 is a rip off. And you act like that the taxes we pay don't go towards anything. It may be high but it goes towards things.
hot12
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Yeah, things like paying for the 407 and then selling it off overseas.
We paid for that hwy to be built now instead of our province reaping the rewards of the profits it is now a third party getting rich off us. I don't blame them I blame our gov't mistake. Anyways all of this comments made me realize my mistakes and I will forever be a good citizen.
I will never j walk again nor will I ever speed even 1km/hour over or I'll burn my license.
Excuse my sarcasm
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JFD
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What's funny is that my plate on my 600rr (2003) was well under the tail but i still got a toll charge in the mail...
Your biggest mistake is that you are ignorant of the history of the highway and of the spin-off benefits that highway provides. Even the sale of the highway provided a lot of spin-off benefits to the average taxpayer.
The goverment sold the rights to operate the highway for twice what it cost the government to build that highway. The money from the sale made went back into the public tax coffers and was used to fund various government programs, pay off some deficit, and even reduce provincial income taxes for a time.
In selling the operating rights, the government also managed to transfer all of the huge ongoing costs of highway maintenance and lane expansion onto that private company. That highway is much longer and much wider than it was at the start, and all that expansion was paid for by 407ETR folks and not out of the public tax coffers. If that work had to be constructed and paid out of public tax coffers, we'd still be waiting for much of that highway to be completed, assuming it ever did get done
The conglomerate that owns the 407 operating rights does have a foreign component to it, but 39% of the 407 is owned by Canadian companies. The 407ETR company itself provides jobs to hundreds of local maintenance, billing, road patrol and other employees that help run the highway. More jobs can be counted among the various construction companies involved in expanding the highway. All policing costs on that highway are paid by the 407ETR company.
The province maintains title to all the land under the highway. At the end of that 99 year operating lease, all of the highway infrastructure and all of the tolling rights go back to the province. At that time the province will gain a fully-built and operating highway system at no cost to the tax coffers.
Of course none of this will matter a bit to you though. After all, it's all about you, isn't it?
Stretch that sucker out to the 35/115 and I'll be a happy camper - should drop me to < 1 hour to get to my cottage. Booya!
Stretch that sucker out to the 35/115 and I'll be a happy camper - should drop me to < 1 hour to get to my cottage. Booya!
It's well underway. You can see hints between the current end and Brooklin. I'm also looking forward to faster drives to Mosport and beyond.
Funny thing is, the new section going east is being built and will be owned by the province with tolls going to the province, though they will probably contract 407ETR to handle billing on their behalf for that new section.
I've been billed plenty by that system. I don't like tolls either, but they are what they are. If I don't want to pay the going rate, there are other highways I can take to avoid the tolls and I do exactly that if I know traffic will be light on the other routes at the times I need to go through.
Does anyone know how fast pics taken at 407 tolls make it to 407 HQ? And are the pics looked at by a person or some computer? Cuz say someone drives a very popular car and has a plate blocker. Even if cops are waiting, unless the cop is hiding by the 407 toll looking for a car with no plates, what are the chances of catching?
The sale of the 407ETR is one of the few things, about the Harris Government, that I'm vehemently against. All that you have written indicates that it could have easily been done, under the auspices of public service and we would not only own it, but the copious amount of fees would be going to The People, rather than investors who require a profit.
So we'll own it in 99 years, from the original lease date huh? That will be 2098. Roll that number around in your head for a minute. Twenty ninety-eight. At anything, approaching current growth rates, that stretch of road will be buried under an archology or carrying commuter rail.
u know how in the winter the snow gets kicked up and covers your plates. that would be a time to use the 407. and if caught just say u have no idea. which is a legitimate reason. 407 prob gets most cars with snow covered plates in winters
