[URL]http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39160425,00.htm[/URL] According to Stanford "despite strenuous efforts by the RTA, its contractors and co-operation with the Motorcycle Council of NSW, no suitable e-tag is even on the horizon". Communications Director of the RTA, Paul Willoughby, asserted that e-tags are not becoming compulsory, as he said car and motorcycle drivers who do not display an e-tag when driving through an automatic tollgate will be photographed and charges will be made to their e-tag account or a fine sent to the vehicles owner's home address. Yet, Willoughby admitted that the charges applied to vehicles that are photographed will be more than those applied to e-tag equipped drivers, making the charges higher for motorcycle riders using tollways. When questioned as to the alternative for motorcycle riders on cashless tollways Willoughby refused to answer any more questions. The RTA is going to screw riders, so what's new? NSW riders, poke at your state member of parliament, and ask why they think it's reasonable that NSW riders should pay more than cars because the RTA can't get its act together. THe more people who ask their member what's going on, the more pressure is put onthe RTA. If you don't do it, then they will just go ahead. The MCC is doing what it can, but it is rider support that matters. [URL]http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/Members.nsf/V3ListCurrentLAMembers[/URL] is a list of pollies which you can search via electorate. TO find which electorate you are in, [URL]http://web.seo.nsw.gov.au/electoral_districts_menu/index.html[/URL] If you can, phone rather than email, as pollies are notoriously bad at checking their email let alone responding to it! Zebee - who notes that the photo thumbnails of some pollies are deeply disturbing.
