Bikes in the Fast Lane: Money? Pay In Motorcycle Coins - Only In Somalia plus 2 more

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• Money? Pay In Motorcycle Coins - Only In Somalia
• UK: Is The London Congestion Charge Working?
• France: 150 Average Trip Speed Radars To Be Installed

Money? Pay In Motorcycle Coins - Only In Somalia Posted: 10 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT Money is a strange thing. Back in the beginning of time, when you needed something you didn't make or grow yourself, you traded it with something you did. Bartering it was called. Then came money, in the beginning it was natural denominations, like salt. If you had salt, you could "buy" anything. Salt did loose it value when it rained, so it slowly got replaced by coins and paper. Nowadays, coins are commonplace; you'll find coins in almost every man's trouser pockets (except maybe the POTUS) and every woman's purse (except again maybe in Lady Gaga's). Coins, as we all know are small, usually circular, pieces of metal. Sometimes the coins aren't totally round, they may have edges. But one country has said to itself "why must coins be round". And the answer is; NO REASON. A coin can be any shape. The country is war-torn Somalia, and in 2007, following the success of the guitar shaped coins, they made a series of motorcycle shaped coins. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

UK: Is The London Congestion Charge Working? Posted: 10 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT Back in 2003 London introduced a congestion charge for any car that wanted to travel into London. Monday to Friday between 07:00 and 18:00. The charge is £10 (about US$16) per day. The money is to be used to enhance the public transport system, and relive the traffic logged city from cars. There was a lot of criticism, saying it would never work. But this graph below from the ITO World show the change. The red zones is where that was an increase of traffic, the blue zones where there was a decrease. I guess the red zones can be explained that it's commuter traffic heading for the train stations, and from there into the inner city by train or underground. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: 150 Average Trip Speed Radars To Be Installed Posted: 09 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT One of the last things the current French president has been able to push through before becoming unemployed, is the installation of 150 route trip radars. Route trip radars consist of 2 sets of radars, one at the beginning of a road segment, the other at the end. When you arrive at the beginning of the segment on your motorcycle, the first radar makes a photo of your motorcycle license plate, recording the date & time. Then when you pass through the end part of the segment, another photo is made, and the average speed is calculated. If you have been speeding, and your average exceeds the maximum speed authorized, you'll get fined, and license points will be deducted. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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