Sydneysiders - Cross-City Tunnel 4WD WARNING!!

"I asume it will still ping me for a car toll in SYD."

Hahahahahahaha you'll be lucky. They're trying to prevent cane toads migrating south LOL

Hi Steve

Where abouts have you seen these bins and do they hold liquid?

Andy

Hi,

Citylink tried that on me - but vehicle is registered as "private use" not commercial so they refunded the difference - suggest you "fight" that one out with Citylink in Melbourne.....to back you up - if you buy a day pass it is for a private vehicle.

Rod

Sorry Blue - may have read your post wrong - mine is an ST wagon.

Rod

Blue, my GU ute is listed as a car for CityLink. Never had any problem with them, so don't know what difference is between yours and mine?

John, is your GU a ute or a wagon...??? It's the cab-chassis ute configuration which throws it all out . According to their reckoning, if I had an XF Falcon ute and you had an AU Falcon ute, you would pay the upper tarrif as the AU is a cab-chassis where as I'd pay the car rate as the XF has a monoformed body. I thied arguing the point that the likes of Patrols/Cruisers/Explorers are all substantially heavier vehicles but to no avail. Several of the blokes here at work lease Navaras and they had them originally listed with Citylink as "Nissan utes" and paid car rates... Citylink cottoned on after a while and changed the classifications on their accounts and now they have to pay light commercial rates.

Blue, it is a Ute. John

Pete

A toll is what people in Sydney & Melbourne pay to get roads that we should have had 20 years ago. The guvmint can't afford them, because a squillion dollars a year of our taxes are distributed to the poor darlings in the "disadvantaged states".

For example - you'd be paying to use the hills tunnel - maybe $4 20 a pop if you were not "disadvantaged". I see you have a new freeway from Wingfield to the Port now - I drove along it six times to see where the toll collection point was. After all - Junction Road is half as bad as Parramatta Road, so you need a freeway. The difference is we pay $3.20 to use the freeway to bypass Paramatta Road, you get a freeway on our taxes.

Enjoy it lest one day justice may prevail. LOL

Max

Heh Pete ??? dont you know a what a toll is?
You pay one everytime you fill with fuel here in good ol rip off S.A. mate, a toll to freight all our fuel from interstate!!
Easier than stuffin around with tolls on freeways.

Cheers Pesty

Dont be surprised if they put one on the new tunnels they are planning for on south rd. anything to pay for there flash hotels and plane flights when they go over seas for bull sh@t meatings lol

Cheers Luke

A toll is used to give a city a road network that isnt 30years behind it's use by date. Adelaide is a bleep -fight when it comes to roads and unless you get a toll of sorts (apparently you will get it through rego) you will never be able to afford to fix an embarrassment like Main South Road.

I love driving Main South Road. It gives me lots of quality time listening to the radio and looking at the shops while stopped. It keeps the stress on the engine down by not using high revs and you get very little wear on your tires when you drive at a crawl.

And when you get stuck behind some 90 year old in their one owner Ford Prefect doing 20 kmh in the right hand lane you don't have to stress because you are keeping up with the traffic anyway!

It is the one road I can drive down to bring back fond memories of traffic in Sydney or Melbourne.

Cheers

Pete

Yep - it's all a tad bizarre Willie, I must say.

I swear I've taken the Defender through the XCity, and I think that a car toll resulted on the statement weeks later - but I can't be certain without it out in front of me. Maybe if you have a E-tag that gets beeped, rather than relying on them billing you via the snapshot taken of your number plate, they give it to you at the lower price.

Weird.....

Willie

I am about 1900 mm high on the car, and never a problem anywhere. BUT ... put the van behind and I am a truck - $9.10 along the M2.

The M7 still charges me as a car though - all that way for $6.10, and a few more kms for $9.10 to North Ryde offramp.

But don't tell them - I just got my statement and even though the tag beeped, the M7 didn't get on to my statement. LOL

Max

The M7 owners have taken over the M2 and the Toll charges and Toll gates have changed - you no longer get charged on height on either of them.

Mike

When was the last time you used the ED, it's been $4.50 for a fair while now. I know as I have to go the back roads every day to avoid the $4.50.