bloody etags

Simple...... without the return signal your vehicle wont operate

 

They do? The Citylink toll road is owned and operated by Transurban Ltd
which is a public company listed on the ASX.

Nev..

 

A simple solution for a simple person... but this is a much more complex
problem. There are plenty of situations where you cannot receive a
valid GPS signal, driving through tunnels, driving through forests with
a thick tree canopy, in multilevel and subterranean carparks, driving
around the CBD of capital cities, especially Sydney with it's high
buildings and narrow streets... and I won't even start on the number of
places you can drive where there is no GSM signal.

Nev..

 

Check out who ends up with the final ownership of the road after the
operating period.

Boxer

 

I know all about the road reverting to state ownership after 34 years
but I think that's an extraordinarily long bow to draw when you're
talking about which state governments use electronic tolling in 2007.

Nev..

 

I'll get the pliers...

Pat

 

I was talking about who introduced tolling, no Toll Roads would be possible
without the approval of the relevant state governments. Long Bow? Hardly.

Boxer

 

Now that has got to hurt.

Boxer

 

PPP

Boxer

 

OK so now you're talking about who introduced it, so why mention who
will gain ownership of it in 34 year as if it's relevant? I thought we
were talking who charged the tolls, or at least that's what I assumed by
your original post which said "Governments that charge tolls on roads.",
which is what I originally replied to, and no matter how you try to
dance around the point, the fact is that the Victorian government do not
charge any tolls on the Citylink toll roads.

Nev..

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:20:34 +1000

Well... in the end, the government is what makes tolling possible.
They are still doing it in Sydney, the Bridge toll goes into general
revenue.

It is true they aren't getting money from the tolls on other roads,
they did get some up front though, eg they gave the Cross City Tunnel
contract to the bods who paid the most up front.

THey aren't charging tolls on any road but the Bridge, they are
responsible for the existence of toll roads and indirectly for some of
the toll prices - eg the CC Tunnel high price, and the lowish one on
the M4/M5 because of the porkbarrelling of the cashback.

Zebee

 

Well, if you want to get pedantic and silly about it, the government are
just representative of the population of persons above 18yo, so it's not
the government at all, it's the voters... or the people who passed the
constitution which gave the government the right to pass laws, or the
people who drafted the text of the constitution, or the poms who gave
Australia the right to self rule, or ultimately probably the King of
England..

Nev..