Toll roads

What's the story for transitory motorbicyclists with regards to tollways in
Sydney and Melbourne?
What do I do if I accidentally get sucked into one of those
wealth-stripping funnels while innocently transiting next week?

 

i think if you're in Sydney you're Up Shit Creek mate! I suspect you might
be able to call some phone number or other in Melbourne if you think you
might've transgressed their magical RingRoad Whatsits...aaaargh!

But hell, what would I know? I'm just a poor Learner in Canberra, where it
isn't the guvmint or the Toll Road owners so much as the ute drivers who are
trying to kill you!

betty

 

So is that still the case?
Is that official [bikes are free] or is there nominally a toll but they
don't pursue you to collect it?
Thanks.

 

But you posted a reply and that's what's important!

 

M7 has signs, you call them within 48 hours to pay.

No tag here either, I dont really need one.

Al

 

Transurban have listed prices for motorcycles on the tollways, but are yet to devise a way of collecting the toll. End result,
m/bikes travel the tollways in Melbourne free of charge.

 

Knob,

In Sydney, the new M7 and Cross City Tunnel are cashless. So you are pretty
much screwed there. I think you just go through, get your letter and pay
then. I got one from a mob called Statewide Roads and had to pay an extra
fee 'cause I had not etag. Or you can find out the phone numbers and call
then to find out what to do.

As far as the M2, M5, M4, Eastern Distributor, Harbour Tunnel and Harbour
bridge you can pay up to 4.50 at the gates.

I just realised ... jeez we got a shit load of tolls in Sydney.

Hope that helps.

DO you have any idea where you are travel to and from in Sydney. I can give
you a heads up on which tolls will apply.

Cheers
PB.

 

Mate; I don't PLAN on going on any of those roads but I have a history of
sorta' getting lost....

 

WooHoo!
(I dunno' if the K75 could've outrun the cameras!)

 

When are you passing through Clem

Al

 

Probably hitting Sydney Tuesday night (28/2) and Wednesday morning Al.
There's so many roads I want to try and so many people I wanna' catch up
with I could spend a fortnight but it'll be a typical
wave-and-toot-the-horn visit instead.

 

Then remember all those toll road names.

 

Why bother remembering the road names? It's not as though Sydney is a world leader where sign-posting is concerned. :-/

 

Take your e-tag with you Clem

Boxer

 

Given your distaste for Sydney and desire to avoid her, you might actual
find the $15 money well spent, you can get from the end of the Newcastle
freeway to the start of the Hume freeway in about an hour with no
traffic lights.

JL
(of course if you want to ride *interesting* roads contact Al P and go
down the putty and via one of his backways to the Southern Highlands
then down to vic by any thing OTHER than the hume)

 

One wonders, if one goes nowhere near these magical whatsits but
calls up, quotes a rego number, and asks "have I been recorded
as passing through a whatsit?", what the answer would be.

I'm a cynic, I reckon they'd take your money.

GB

 

You're missing the point if you think its only the utes, or all the utes.
There are dickheads in everything + plus everyone has the bad moments.

Andre

 

$8. If they bother.

 

I still haven't been charged for last months efforts.

 

yeah, i noticed - last week it was 4WD drivers on the Clyde, and the week
before that it was a yobbo in a shitbox stationwagon at a set of lights -
but yesterday it was ute drivers.

Paranoid? me?

betty