Eastlink (Melb) Cost Warning!

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No wonder Eastlink is the new White Elephant with no one using it! If you do not have an account ..... $40.00 set up fee ....... A cost of a single small trip is a killer.

I have an Etag and pays through work so I havn't kept up with the way it works but my son used it today to go from Greens Road to Cheltenham Rd (2 gates approx 2 km's .... if that) go to pay on my card and the option is to pay $4.96. One fee for one trip, even if you use 1 toll ..... From entry to next exit 500 metre trip. Get on accidently and its instantly $4.96 even if you get off the next immeadiate exit.

No wonder the road is so empty and Stud Rd is back to the way is was with no one using it. Everywhere you go its just bend over and take it with a smile on your dial.

For me, yes I can afford to use it ..... at the moment ..... just waiting for the monthly bill to see what it is really costing.

For interstaters using the road, please just be careful! $100 fine after 3 days non payment or $4.96 for a 25 second blast ....... cameras are starting to operate as well with a minium of 10 being set up with a very marginal tolerance.



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