Originally Posted by
contango
It's quite comical really. If a car blows through a toll gate without paying you take its registration. If a bike blows through without paying what do you take?
The argument about putting registration marks on a bike comes up every once in a while and is never any more practical to implement than the previous time, for all the same reasons as the previous time. So the best this fool can do is put something on the handlebars of those who can be bothered to sign up, and remember not to hit it with a club hammer, and of course who have space on their handlebars for yet another box.
I can just imagine him trying to explain why he's sent the police out after a six-year-old girl on a pink bike because she didn't pay the toll.
In Switzerland, it is mandatory to have a permanent regsitration attached to the bike at all time (it covers insurance and other things.)
Sorry, no English available:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velovignette
it wouldn't be so hard to hook up a license plate scanner (EZ-pass for you guys) for one and record those who don't pay.