Sydney Tolls

lately, I've been heading to Sydney on day trips (about once every two
months) I've tried looking on the web and ended up getting confused
(pretty easy to do)

Is one E-tag good for all tolls in Sydney? If so, who do I go through
and how much $$$.

For someone who only visits sydney 6-10 times a year, is an E-tag
worth it?

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Cheers
The Happy Drunk
K100RT

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:37:51 +1100

Yes. you can get an RTa one from rta.nsw.gov.au or various company
ones from their sites, try etoll.com.au westlinkm7.com.au

depends.

I live here, I don't have one. I don't use the tollroads except for
the ones I can pay cash at, and seldom those. I use the Bridge and
the M5 the most, say once every 3 months.

If you know how to avoid the e-only tolls and are willing to do so
then you don't need one. Which means stay off the M7 and the harbour
tunnel and the silly as bedamned Lane Cove and cross-city tunnels.

all of which are pretty easy to do.

So say what journeys you do and you'll get suggestions as to different
routes.


Zebee

 

mostly, I use the M5 and M4, If I'm heading towards the Richmond area
from canberra, I use the northern road, but if I'm heading the
hurstville I need to keep it simple. I drive up and the missus has to
drive back.

But I figured if I was to get one of these things I would like to get
one that covers everything.

Thanks for the advice, I will check out the RTA site.
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Cheers
The Happy Drunk
K100RT

 

The RTA one had the lowest fees last I looked (20months ago) - which is
to say they didn't charge you a ridiculous "low usage fee" which some of
the others do - watch out for that one.

For the convenience of not having to worry about it I'd get one if you
don't mind tying up $80 in the pursuit of convenience

While Zebee is of course correct that you CAN avoid the toll roads,
there is certainly a huge time saving to be obtained, and a utility
factor of not doing stop start traffic (and prob. a couple of cents fuel
saving as well). It's also the case that you have to know HOW to avoid
them (which in an unfamiliar city is a bit of an ask). The toll roads
make it easy to get from a to b if you're going in any of the "common"
directions

JL

 

Would be well worth mentioning that they take $50.00 credit first off, and
you pay that gradually, when you get close to finishing that, they take
another $50.00 and so forth.
When you use toll roads as often as I do (several times a year), that means
they have MY $50 for a bloody long time (many, many years).

Thanks, but I'd rather have it in my pocket than theirs. Money doesn't grow
on trees anymore you know. They make them out of plastic now.

And there is that minor "official" stand that etolls are not available for
bikes (though it works anyway).

Manually? Nope, done the "stop, neutral gloves off, take wallet out, pay
dude/dudette, put wallet pack, gloves on, in gear, go" shuffle too many times
to want to do it anytime again soon.

Nope, for *me*, the time/stress saving is way too minuscule to make up for
the significant cost outlay.