Transit Tolls on Western Ring Route

**Drum** · 19th October 2006, 15:03

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

But it is used so well in every other country that uses it!

P/T

It actually works very well in several US cities.

If it didnt work anywhere, do you really think that they would consider it here?

Transit never uses anything that hasnt worked somewhere overseas!

**Jonny Rotten** · 19th October 2006, 15:08

i think your all missing the big picture here......

how do i get the change for the toll booth out of my jacket pocket with my gloves on ?????

**Squeak the Rat** · 19th October 2006, 15:12

Originally Posted by Jonny Rotten

i think your all missing the big picture here......

how do i get the change for the toll booth out of my jacket pocket with my gloves on ?????

Who says there will be cash stations? You'd think there would need to be but the closest they have come to saying this is that there would be the ability to pay anonomously. If there is a cash option they'd make it a separate lane on an on-ramp so the worst that would happen would be that you'd hold up a lane.....

From the website:

Originally Posted by crazy fools

The Electronic Toll Collection System – How tolls would be collected
An Electronic Toll Collection system would be used on the Western Ring Route toll road to ensure that traffic flows smoothly.

Key features of electronic toll collection are that:

Vehicles at each toll point are identified by cameras and/or other equipment
Toll charges are incurred as vehicles pass through each toll point
Vehicles are identified by an image of the vehicle’s licence plate or possibly, for frequent users, by an electronic tag inside the vehicle
Tolls could be paid after travel or by automatically debiting an established account.

**ManDownUnder** · 19th October 2006, 15:12

Originally Posted by Jonny Rotten

i think your all missing the big picture here......

how do i get the change for the toll booth out of my jacket pocket with my gloves on ?????

Very very slowly. (See my sig...) I think that's a good thing - no? Imagine 100 bikes doing it, one after the other, Thursday night at 5:10pm

**Karma** · 19th October 2006, 17:49

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

I can see it now... the first ever KB ride organised down a motorway... and at 5:10pm on a weeknight. I love it.

A fine example of the system being used to fuck itself.

Maybe wanna get the media involved at the same time?

**The Pastor** · 19th October 2006, 17:59

Im actually building the bit from uhc to the greenhite bridge, don't worry fokes, were in NO hurry to get the damn thing done! The other half of the motorway hasnt even started yet so the road wont be open for another 3-4 years, although they may toll the half we've almost done now, im not sure, but cant bikes just go around the arm barrier anyways?

and for your information, the current roads will still be operating so you don't have to take the toll.

**Ixion** · 19th October 2006, 18:09

Originally Posted by Jonny Rotten

i think your all missing the big picture here......

how do i get the change for the toll booth out of my jacket pocket with my gloves on ?????

Change ? What change? Sorry , all I have is a $100 note. Can I put it on my credit card ? Do you do EFTPOS ? (Repeat, 100 times)

**Disco Dan** · 20th October 2006, 00:11

HATE the idea of tolls

If they use cameras to ID plates... bikes have plates on the back

as for cash...

WE NEED TO ORGANISE A TOLL RUN! all KB bikers go through during rush hour and prove our point!!!! yeah!

**sAsLEX** · 20th October 2006, 00:15

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

If they use cameras to ID plates... bikes have plates on the back

Which get rather dirty, and elevated cameras aint seeing them tucked nice and deep in under the wheel, regs only require that they are visible in certain angles to the rear not above

**SARGE** · 20th October 2006, 05:19

i live pretty much at the foot of Mt. Roskill where they are building a section of it ..

i think they are digging it with a dessert spoon..

shit man.. that small stretch they have been working on for a year woulda been done in a month back in the States.. all i see is big fat Taro disposal units standing around smoking fags on this dig

**Street Gerbil** · 20th October 2006, 07:40

Done. I thought we already paying for road usage at petrol pumps. I don't like double taxation. Besides 50% admin overhead sounds criminal.

**Swoop** · 20th October 2006, 08:14

Originally Posted by renegade master

and for your information, the current roads will still be operating so you don't have to take the toll.

Have you had a look at the website and seen where they want to site toll stations?
They are placed on new sections of road AND on existing roads.
The North Western Motorway will have one on Pollen Island - the main motorway area that has been in use since the 1960's... one which the taxpayer has paid for already.

**Ixion** · 20th October 2006, 08:17

There are also two toll stations shown on the Southern motorway. What's with that ?

**The Pastor** · 20th October 2006, 08:22

Originally Posted by Swoop

Have you had a look at the website and seen where they want to site toll stations?
They are placed on new sections of road AND on existing roads.
The North Western Motorway will have one on Pollen Island - the main motorway area that has been in use since the 1960's... one which the taxpayer has paid for already.

No, that map is small scale, the're are 2 roads where the one is showen.

Edit Sorry bro I thought you where talking about the new UHC motorway that im building, my bad.

If you look closely the little grey road is the current road and will remain open, usally when they toll a road, its not the only way to a place, so I find it hard to belive that you have to go through a certian toll.