Thread: ANOTHER BANKRUPT TUNNEL COMPANY

Originally Posted by wardy1

Hey Mick,
If you have an Etag, you can use all of the toll roads in Oz and only pay the Etag price, which is lower than the 'day use' or single use price. You only need to keep enough credit on the tag to cover your use so as an occasional user, you can top it up whenever you need to using your online banking.
We just have to accept that these days, if we want these roads/tunnels, it is a user pays just like it is in most countries.... do you all think the famous Autobahns in Germany are free? If you want to take 3 hours to get to work in Japan, don't pay tolls, if you want to get to work in an hour, you pay.
From my perspective, I'll pay $6-8 for Eastlink and save myself an hour of my day avoiding the tolls.
Either pay tolls, or pay more in tax, rego or something else. Since everyone I talk to reckons that $700 is a lot to register and CTP their cars, I don't think they'd react well to having an extra $100 added for roads they don't use.

The thing is, where the toll roads are, I don't have a need to use them that often. I don't have much to do in the east.
When Citylink first started (Transurban I think it was back then) I was going to get an eTag. I read the fine print. They wanted to keep a minimum balance of $20 and dip into my bank account whenever they saw fit. And (here's the bit that I wasn't prepared to accept) If I hadn't used the tollway in a year, Transurban were going to debit the account $20 for the privilege of having an account with them. True. That was in the info pack Transurban sent to me way back in 1998-99.
In it's twelve or thirteen years of operation I have only found it necessary to use it four times, and that was following friends.
It's just not my side of town nor does it go anywhere I want to go.

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

On an up note.
Tunnels are rarely filled in after being built.
We may therefore have a free tunnel (almost).

Ralph

Exactly, at least we get a tunnel and road, unlike the Gold Coast Tram System, errr Light Rail. I prefer tram, if it looks like dog doo and smells like dog doo etc. When it is finished it will have blocked traffic through Southport and Surfers, killed off parking sent shop keepers broke and will be a complete failure that will not only cost us to build but also cost us to rip up.