Moto Guzzi Club of Queensland Forum

Toll booths will be no more from July 1. The new buzz phrase is "Free Flow Tolling" no stopping so that is a good thing. Believe it or not the new system has actually considered motorcycles riders! Yes, they have realised we exist and that the transponders are not really bike friendly. The good news is that if you set up an account and have your bike regos listed you do not need to carry or mount a transponder on the bike, the plate will be matched and your account charged for the toll. The best part is that for everybody but bike riders the number plate matching cost 40c a time, bikes are not charged this Note that you must have an account set up for this, you can do that online at https://www.govia.com.au/govia/information/home/home+page

Video matching fee
go viavideo account and pass customers will pay a $0.40 video matching fee per toll point, in addition to the toll, to cover the costs of video matching.
Motorcyclists who have a go viavideo account will be exempt from the video matching fee while travelling on the Queensland Motorways road network.
go viatag account customers will incur this $0.40 video matching fee if their tag is not present in their vehicle when travelling through a toll point.

Full list of charge here https://www.govia.com.au/govia/information/resources/b/6/b648cb804e46a52082baef9f7cf33b22/QM307_GoVia+fees+and+charges_Dis01_ag.pdf

I still think we should not have to pay tolls, but this beats having to old "stop at the toll booth/remove gloves/find change/drop change/curse the world" system that I used to use

Well if you weren't in such a hurry Mark you could do the get off
the bike ,
scrounge around on ground ,
dig through your pockets
pay toll
put gloves back on and piss of in a hurry having irritated at least 10
car drivers in the process.

Ahh the small pleasures of life.

Haha , I'm glad that I'm not the only annoying motorcyclist in Brisbane to do this.

They started that caper in Sydney trying to get the RTA to remove tolls for bike, everybody was asked to stop, get off the bike, search around in pockets, then get wallet & pay toll, put everything back on/away, restart bike, do all significant checks, then ride off from toll plaza, this process normally took about 3-4 minutes.
I got so used to doing it in Sydney that every time I go through the tolls I do it up here, they've taken my fun away, but now I wonder how they'll go reading my licence plate, since it might have been influenced by chemical components in the atmosphere & may be illegible to speed/traffic light cameras, will their cameras be able to make it out.
What's the cost for running the tolls without a valid account, do anyone know?
Not that I'm planning to do anything illegal, do they have speed recording on the cameras & where are they positioned?


Oops there goes Wal again.

Wal,
First they have to build a Cali that can break the current Australian speed limit ............ I'm so dead aren't I

But in saying that they now have the technology to make our current Red-Light cameras speed cameras as well and they are on trial in Brisbane as we speak .......... so don't nail it through a yellow light (Wal excluded).

I got my transponder thingy last year when I was going to the GP as I was staying a week in Sydney. I proudly held it white side up going through all the check points, 4 trips from Quaker's Hill to the city, 1 return trip to pick up and install my Cliff Jefferies 16M ECU, 2 Trips from QH to the airport and one return trip to Woolongong all on the Toll ways (If you've done this your looking at at least $80 in tolls) upon my return was sent an account for $2.60 my for a pass through the center checkpoint of the Harbour Tunnel (nice photo to). I rang the 1800 number to say I had a transponder, to which I was told to take to my nearest QLD Motorways office to get it fixed up. I said I would wait a week or 2 to get any more so I only had to do 1 trip out there to sort it all out. Lady at other end checks her system and says I only have the one outstanding (for the center of the tunnel) and to pay it before they send out the dogs to collect. I protest and say how did I get to the center of the tunnel without going through the start or end checkpoints, she says "Don't know, just pay the $2.60".
For my whole time in Sydney it cost me $2.60 and no more was charged to my account.

While I was in Melbourne I had the transponder wrapped in tin foil (QLD Motorways said to do this so it won't ring up tolls in Vic as motorcyclist are free on Vic Tollways) but I did travel on the new Eastlink, on which motorcyclists have to pay, and never got charged for that.

Maybe modern tech is motorcycle friendly or Guzzi friendly who knows ..........

Ah, yeah I've yet to see a Guzzi that will, but you forget Masto, it will do 290 (bloody turn 1 at PI looms quickly at that speed & I have slid off that corner more than once), what will it do on a public road? Don't know, I haven't had an infringment in over 3 years, I know it runs out of acceleration around 295 but given a real flat long road, say the road to Eidsvold then 300 is possible but who's looking at the speedo when you're going that quick & it wasn't me on the M1 doing over 200 on the back wheel, if some newspaper can produce conclusive photo evidence that it was Masto then it may have been, but speed wasn't the issue, number plate recognition was my question. I'm sure if I blatted through the tool booths at over 200, Cuntstable Plod would be looking for me all over Brisbane.

or his sister Ploddette

I thought the Cliff Jeffries' Flux Capacitor made all Guzzis become 'Busa killers !

I"ve had two cop cars flash me in the last week at 110kmh either side of Eidsvold and their presesnce in the area is unprecedented in my 16years of living here, alas the good old days are gone for the time being it seems.