bridge toll

anyone know if the cashless toll on the Sydney Harbour bridge is one way
(as was)or is it both ways (if it is it's another rort)

 

I think that question might be adequately answered by considering for
a moment the consquequences for the already immensely unpopular NSW
state government of what would constitute a doubling of the existing
bridge/tunnel toll. I think that if the minister for transport were
to so much as breath the idea in passing, our state parliment would
quickly reflect that of Taiwan's, as other MPs scrambled to silence
the stupid bastard "before we all get killed by our constituents".

No, it shall be one way, southbound.


GB

 

That's 'cos you haven't mastered Reading 101 yet, Iain...

Here... I'll explain it for you, diddums...

He's saying if the immensely unpopular government doubled the charges
the consequences (for said government) would lead to a defeat at the
polls, therefore they will only charge one way.

There, that wasn't so hard, was it Iain?


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

A little sarcasm deserves a little more...

So you call what you posted "a rant about NSW politics"???

Hmmm... I guess there's rants and then there's rants...

"Mark 1/10 : Note for your mother: Iain is lazy. He can do much
better."


Uri

Currently riding: Ural Gear Up (Orange Camo)
http://www.imz-ural.com/gearup/#

 

Wasn't the bridge was fully paid for in 1988,?
therefore the tolls should not exist

Use the bridge to avoid paying the toll in the tunnel, but you pay the
bridge toll to pay for the tunnel.

Damned if you do and damned if you don't

The West Gate Bridge in Melbourne was finished in 1978 and the tolls removed
in 1985 after the bridge was paid for.
Why can't Sydney follow suit?

At 150,000 vehicles using the Sydney Harbour Bridge every day (Gov. stats)

Copied from a web page :
The Harbour Bridge was officially opened on 19 March 1932. The total cost of
the Bridge was approximately 6.25 million Australian pounds ($A13.5
million), and was eventually paid off in 1988. The initial toll for a car
was 6 pence (5 cents) and a horse and rider was 3 pence (2 cents). Today the
toll costs $3.00. The toll is now used for bridge maintenance and to pay for
the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. The annual maintenance costs are approximately $5
million. More than 150,000 vehicles cross the bridge each day.


given that half of those 150,000 vehicles, 75,000 would be travelling South
At $3 a time, then that is $225,000 a day X 365 days a year
Works out to $82,125,000.00 for the year
Good GovCo. ripoff

 

Wot 'e said...


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Because the Cosa Nostra pulls the strings...


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

The answer of course is 'whatever is required to ensure that after the
executive and director salaries have been paid and the shareholder's
dividends have been distributed, there is _just_ enough money left over
to maintain the road at just below whatever the set minimum level of
maintenance proscribed by the government may be'.

Nev..
'07 XB12X
'08 DL1000K8

 

Sounds just like typical Government gobbledegook

 

Heh heh; when I did my Technical Officer (they said it was based on an
associate diploma of electronics) course at work I'd been a long time out of
school and I just about blew it by underestimating how hard it was gonna be
and doing zero preparation.
I got a rude shock when I got 20% on my first exam and really knuckled down
but still only manged 48 on the second one. The third was the biggie and I
had to ring interstate to get my results.
I nervously waited while he looked me up and then replied 94.
I incredulously blurted out "WHAT?!!?" but then he carefully explained
"94.... it's a pretty good score....."

 

Yeah, in 2008 I got four coursework High Distinctions, two published
papers, ran two conferences, spoke at another conference, taught four
thirteen-week classes, spoke at eight 'postgraduate information evenings,
counselled a whole class of terrified honours students through their
beloved mentor being fired without ever letting on that he was fired for
fucking one of them, caught four (committed) plagiarists, got two of my
students and one of my classmates full-time jobs at various universities,
introduced a kid from Tasmania to the sport of geocaching and a woman
from Manly to the sport of motorcycling, got knocked off my motorcycle
three times by SMIDSY fuckers in cars, got a bloke from Essex hired
as a full-time academic and got a bent cop called to account.

Tomorrow I'm getting carpeted because I don't have a topic for my
thesis yet.


I know exactly how you feel big.


GB, apparently I failed to deliver a partridge in a fuckin' pear tree.

 

Uh, you're from around here, aren't you!


GB

 

Mate, I got ninety for one of my exams this year, and my missus
made me ring up and complain. Apparently 88 is luckier!


GB, she who must be obeyed is Chinese!

 

Bloody underachievers!


G-S

 

No idea, but it's just another of many reasons I'm glad to not be living
in Sydney. Not living there also has the added benefit of not only
avoiding those problems, but of being entertained by the endless
complaints of those who willingly subject themselves to such miseries
without ever getting off their arses and moving somewhere better.

 

I moved to Cairns around 6 years ago.

Went down to Sydney a few months ago and the traffic had become even more of
a nightmare than when I lived there.

.......And friends in Sydney ask me "Don't you miss Sydney"

 

Last time I drove in Sydney was 3 years ago. The CBD was insane. I was
there last year but we public transporting it and you don't tend to
notice it as much if you aren't in amongst it dealing with it.

But 3 years ago I left the airport in a rental car heading to my hotel
at around 9 o'clock at night. There was a UBD in the glovebox, but as
I used to work in the CBD near where the hotel is I figured I didn't
need it. I'd been back to Sydney on bike and in car several times
since 1990 when I moved from there, but hadn't returned to the CBD as
I never saw the point, even when I lived there. When I got in there,
it was just full of buses and taxis, nowhere to pull over and check
UBD to see what streets are now one-way and plan a route to get where
I wanted to go, so I just kept pushing on until I finally got there.

It's certainly changed. Chuck the insane parking charges (I paid $45
for half an hour in one off-street park near the Opera House) I guess
they are trying to stop people bringing cars into the CBD. Wonder how
long before they try London's trick?

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:21:38 GMT

They already are. Just incompetently. (you expected something else?)

They are about to make the Bridge toll higher in "peak" meaning
something like 7am to 10am and 4pm to 6pm. Not, however, high enough
to be a real deterrent, just high enough to make some money. And only
on the Bridge, nowhere else.

(I note that the first working day the Bridge went cashless,
Gladesville Bridge and Victoria Raod were a carpark. Worse than
normal carpark. "Shock" and "horror" went the pollies. "Couldn't
find their arse with both hands and a map" was the general verdict on
said pollies.)

Zebee

 

I really don't understand why they can't just levy a flat $5 toll on any
vehicle entering the CBD during daylight hours any day of the week, and
ramp up public transport (at prices that put it below the cost of
bringing in a car) sufficiently to take up the demand that the tolls
will generate. oh wait, yes I do understand...it's because they're
bloody hopeless.

 

I;m not sure they're trying to discourage anyone. I think as long as
there are people who are rich/stupid/lazy/desperate enough to pay $45 to
park their car for 1/2 hour they'll encourage as many of those people as
possible to continue to do it... the more the better.

Nev..
'07 XB12X
'08 DL1000K8