I loved the idea of putting a generating device below the toll booths (maybe streets too).
I have had this idea for years that no one can tell me won't work.
The ocean moves constantly, why not put platforms on it with a fulcrum device on top that swings and generates energy as it swings. The same principle as water moving turbines.
If we can put cables to carry phone lines under the ocean, certainly we can do the same with electricity.
Non polluting, always renewable, and could be put virtually anywhere there is a tide.
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There is a design for wave generating devices. And windmills are now gaining populatiry as well.
I think there is a misconception that power plants are a huge cause of pullution. When in reality it is a very small percentage. It is is the combustion engine in cars, in such large numbers that is the main source of air pollution in the world only next jet planes.
Moving the oil economy over to some hydrogen fuel cell system is what is required and I predict you will see this start to happen in the next decade.
The 'nodding duck' wave power generator is at least 20 years old. There are several test sites around the world, but the capital cost v power generated is a problem. Offshore wind generators (there is NO turbine involved, despite the name the media use) are a better bet ATM.
Any mechanical device in the street would slow down the vehicles, causing them to use more fuel.
Not long ago, somebody was looking at a tide turbine to be tested in San Francisco Bay. Don't know what happened to it.