Northern Gateway Toll Road - Foot over plate

[Gremlin]

Used the tunnel when it was free, never since we had to pay. My little protest against paying as much as cars, so I always use the free route. It's really not that much slower, a matter of minutes, but depends whether you get caught behind a snail.

[Geeen]

His piano had a front plate?

The piano was Grandads, now its my wifes. Dad can't play the piano.......

[Madness]

The free route has some of the better corners to be had within a short pootle from Auckland. I've been known to stop, turn around and do the hills either side of Waiwera again before proceeding on.

[@ndy]

Why would you want to use the boring straight pay road on a motorcycle?
Free road: free, good corners, views, Orewa ice cream, no speed cameras...

[motobob]

On my car I just use a copy of John Key's number plate. Never had a problem.

[Metastable]

I use to live in an area that had tolls where you were charged in the mail after it took a picture of your plates on the entrance and exit. Well apparently if you were doing 200kph+ the camera couldn't take the picture or maybe it was not readable anymore.

[Waihou Thumper]

Came through there a couple of days ago and was thinking....what if you just took the plate off and then put it back on after the tunnel?
Have some sort of quick release wing nuts or sommit...
Or obscured with the enormous amount of luggage some of us take away for a dirty weekend...

[Metastable]

Up in these parts if the plate is obstructed or not readable you can get a ticket. Some dudes have flip plates, plate covers that frost over when a switch is hit...... but they are all illegal and folks have been busted.

[Maha]

Calling all shady cunts,

Has anyone stood up on their pegs and put a foot over the plate and successfully got away with not paying the toll on the Northern Gateway Toll Road?

Maybe a wheelie? But you should't be doing them on the street because thats Illegal!!

I still got the toll last week even with my angled mount I made. $2.20 is a bit steep, thats almost a litre of 98.

You use the toll road when you're on your bike? why why and why?

[Swoop]

Or obscured with the enormous amount of luggage some of us take away for a dirty weekend..

That's what plastic bags are made for. Or footwear...

[Vinz0r]

but for the OP's sake, one of the other guy's had his plate so far forward and bent halfway to the ground the camera didn't snap a picture and so he got away without payment (the lucky bugga)

Hahaha, that was great. Was loaded up with too much luggage so much plate got squished back when it contacted with the rear tire.