[VIC] Toll charges on Eastlink!

**DA9B18C** · 03-02-2010 10:54 AM

Riders,

Was anyone aware that there are toll chargers for riding A MOTORBIKE on the Eastlink??

Eastlink customer service claim there is appropriate signage! LOL Yeh Right!

So if u dont know, now u no

**shadou** · 03-02-2010 10:56 AM

wtf every melbournian knows the Eastlink is a tolled stretch of highway, just like the citylink; wtf it was advertised like a billion times, and they even sent you flyers of charges and shit and even had a temp store in box hill for information and shit and before the last 2 exits (blackburn and springvale) it has a huge blue sigh saying TOLL WAY AHEAD, should look at them it's very big and pretty and blue and fkin impossible to miss and i hardly think bikes get away with it.

**Riced_Civic** · 03-02-2010 11:22 AM

OMG as if u didnt know and u live in melbourne.

**DA9B18C** · 03-02-2010 11:27 AM

!EDIT!

Motorcyclist only.

keep your Flamming to ureself.

**Raztaz** · 03-02-2010 11:36 AM

why should a bike be free of charge when you are using the same stretch of road as the cars? It does say tollway ahead lol

**shadou** · 03-02-2010 04:44 PM

lol you have to pay rego on a bike to use the roads so naturally one would assume the same would apply to all rego paying vehicles using a tolled piece of road, plus it's under <$5 isn't it for a once off trip?

**m3ntAL_l2** · 03-02-2010 05:07 PM

i think he was not aware untill they sent him the bill/fine in the mail.. there is no need to get all emotional

**dynasty** · 03-02-2010 05:12 PM

lol Eastlink has always tolled motorbikes because it has 2 cameras at the check points which takes front and back rego plates, remember the whole hype about introducing front number plates to bikers just so that they can save money and build just 1 camera like citylink?
Citylink on the other hand only has 1 camera which takes a picture of the front rego plates only so bikes can get away with no etag (i havn't been on it for almost a year now so i dont know if they have changed that so dont quote me)

**DA9B18C** · 03-02-2010 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by m3ntAL_l2

i think he was not aware untill they sent him the bill/fine in the mail.. there is no need to get all emotional

correct,

im use to citylink, so of coarse im under the impression there was no charge.

so all u east siders that are quite clear on the rules cos u use it everyday.

CALM THE F@k DOWN.

this thread was created to make people aware so they dont get stung.
wether its under $5 or not.

**Spoon DA9R** · 04-02-2010 01:04 PM

yeh citylink is free..not eastlink...they did have signs up on the freeway when they first started the freeway showing how much it'll be charged for cars, trucks and bikes...if they removed it then its pretty dodgy....at the time when i saw the sign i was thinking to myself..."damn...50cents to pass here on a bike?"