Toll booths

[dr nick]

this is getting beyond control, in sydney at least. yesterday i had to travel to camden and had to pay a bridge toll ($3), the M5 motorway toll twice ($6.60) and the eastern distributor ($3.50) racking up $13.10 for the trouble. i imagine some people have to pay this every day for work.
i was also reading in the paper that we will soon have to pay $5 each way on the western sydney orbital, $3.50 on a new cross city tunnel, $2 on a lane cove tunnel and $1 for a warringah road toll.
i remember them saying that once the harbour bridge was paid off, they'd wipe the toll. instead we have seen it go from 20 cents to $3. is this also a problem on melbourne roads?? i just find now, with the added price of petrol, driving is becoming far too much of a luxury

and another thing... where do toll collectors park their cars?

 

[dr nick]

so to go from north east sydney to south west sydney, it will cost as much as $30.10 when you add up all the tolls you will have to go through, a lot of tolls having to be paid both ways of course

 

[Portia]

So don't use the toll road?....

 

[FIGJAM]

You don't have an e-tag type system in Sydney do you?

Have to slow down and queue up. What a drag!

Having lived in Sydney, I maintain that I won't live there again, as trafic or rent eats most of your life/money. Low liveability.

Pretty town though!

 

[i_luv_westcoast]

Have to love Perth, no toll roads

 

[evade28]

yeah melbourne is superior, we dont have to slow down and pay, we all get ripped off via our 'citylink accounts' instead!

 

[Bridgette]

Have lived in Melb & Bris & have to love Ballarat with great infrastructure, no tolls, few lights, casual pace, cheap accomodation not to mention farkin freezing.

 

[TheMase]

Originally posted by FIGJAM
You don't have an e-tag type system in Sydney do you?

Have to slow down and queue up. What a drag!

Having lived in Sydney, I maintain that I won't live there again, as trafic or rent eats most of your life/money. Low liveability.

Pretty town though!

Im actually pretty sure we have both. ETAG and Toll system.

So that it caters for both motorists.
I am fairly sure of that ..

 

[FIGJAM]

Originally posted by TheMase
Im actually pretty sure we have both. ETAG and Toll system.

Fairy Nuff!

 

[Bomber Spirit]

Originally posted by nicko18
this is getting beyond control, in sydney at least. yesterday i had to travel to camden and had to pay a bridge toll ($3), the M5 motorway toll twice ($6.60) and the eastern distributor ($3.50) racking up $13.10 for the trouble. i imagine some people have to pay this every day for work.

I had a job interview in Chatswood the other day and I've got a 2nd interview next week. $3.30 each way on the M2 - if I get this job it'll cost me $33 a week just to pay the tolls to get to work. And it's pretty much compulsory to drive - there's no direct bus from Northmead (where I live) to Chatswood.
I'll be able to afford it - if I get this job I'll be getting nearly double what I'm getting now, but it'll still annoy the **** out of me. I've got used to walking to work which doesn't cost me anything.

 

[Brad Goodman]

I love the Brisbane tolls. 3-lane road, 15-lane tollbooth, then a race to the 3-lane road out the other side. Lots of fun.

 

[you_idiot]

Originally posted by Bridgette
Have lived in Melb & Bris & have to love Ballarat with great infrastructure, no tolls, few lights, casual pace, cheap accomodation not to mention farkin freezing.

All a matter of give and take, my neighbour.

I'll take the cold, wind and ocassional rains in exchange for the standard of living here. If it takes putting on a warmer jumper when inside, wearing a parka when you go out, and throwing an additional blanket on the bed at night, then so be it.

And Jen agrees with me 100%.

In fact, she's gone on record by saying that this is even nicer than living in Geelong, where she grew up-- and I don't think Geelongs all that bad, really.

And having grown up in California, in San Jose-- the capital of Silicon Valley, with a population of over a million people-- and having lived there before I moved here for good, I welcome the slower pace. But I could live in another big city just as easily, again.

But I, too, could do without the toll roads. If I have to get into Melbourne, we won't drive, but rather get on the V-Line, and public transit is very easy to use around there.

I'd even get used to commuting between Ballarat and Melbourne if it ever came to that as well. Wouldn't mind that at all...

Cheers,
William