can you pay cash on the portlaoise toll plaza?

Gmol

As the title says can this be done still? Thanks in advance

YbFocus

Gmol wrote: »

As the title says can this be done still? Thanks in advance

Like change into the basket? If so yes. Look above the aisles for the blue symbol that leads you to the basket type barrier.

Gmol

Thanks very much

charlemont

YbFocus wrote: »

Like change into the basket? If so yes. Look above the aisles for the blue symbol that leads you to the basket type barrier.

Total joke, On Sunday the stupid thing didn't count all the coins I put in, So cost me more than 1.90..

YbFocus

Gmol wrote: »

Thanks very much

No hassle, for some reason they usually have the central ones closed so you have to go to the extreme right or left ones. I'm through it fairly regularly.

Del2005

charlemont wrote: »

Total joke, On Sunday the stupid thing didn't count all the coins I put in, So cost me more than 1.90..

I got caught out on the M50 toll years ago heading to the airport. Stuck in the 80p and it only registered 20p so had to throw in another £1. Since then I've never used the baskets, always hand my money to the operator. I know a biker who never carries change and just picks it up from the road at the baskets.

guttenberg

Del2005 wrote: »

I got caught out on the M50 toll years ago heading to the airport. Stuck in the 80p and it only registered 20p so had to throw in another £1. Since then I've never used the baskets, always hand my money to the operator. I know a biker who never carries change and just picks it up from the road at the baskets.

Surely any coins the machines doesn't acknowledge gets spit back out? I vaguely remember sticking my hand in the return slot thing and lifting a few euro from the M1 toll!

Del2005

guttenberg wrote: »

Surely any coins the machines doesn't acknowledge gets spit back out? I vaguely remember sticking my hand in the return slot thing and lifting a few euro from the M1 toll!

I've never noticed a return slot and was in a rush.

jprboy

guttenberg wrote: »

Surely any coins the machines doesn't acknowledge gets spit back out? I vaguely remember sticking my hand in the return slot thing and lifting a few euro from the M1 toll!

My sister tells me she checks the return slot every time and nearly always finds some rejected coins !

jprboy

I know a fella who arrived at a toll booth a few years ago with all his change ready as all organised people do.

Flung the coins towards the basket only to find that he hadn't lowered the window........

Bandara

jprboy wrote: »

I know a fella who arrived at a toll booth a few years ago with all his change ready as all organised people do.

Flung the coins towards the basket only to find that he hadn't lowered the window........

It was you, wasn't it ?

fryup

say if didn't have the correct change...would they accept notes? a €50 note?

ba_barabus

fryup wrote: »

say if didn't have the correct change...would they accept notes? a €50 note?

Yes if you go to the cashier.

Or like the 2 cars that blocked the lanes at Drogheda yesterday you can park at the change basket and run across the open lanes to the cashiers desk. Two different cars, two different lanes.

goldenhoarde

Yes as long as you go to a window with a cashier. Usually the ones to the left of the coin ones

Tallon

I can't believe these are legitimate questions

Yes, the toll bridge accepts cash

Yes, it has a return slot for unregistered change

If it takes the wrong amount and asks for more money, press the buzzer and complain

Why would you pay more than you have to?

dr.fuzzenstein

ba_barabus wrote: »

Yes if you go to the cashier.

Or like the 2 cars that blocked the lanes at Drogheda yesterday you can park at the change basket and run across the open lanes to the cashiers desk. Two different cars, two different lanes.

That's Darwinism at work for you. They got lucky this time...

munchkin_utd

Tallon wrote: »

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Why would you pay more than you have to?

automatic money counting machines can make mistakes.

It happened the sister last week at a railway ticket machine when she was putting the coins in quickly one after the other that a coin or 2 wasnt registered, but wasnt rejected either.

Delta Kilo

I pulled up to a toll booth before, the basket, one on the M4 so it was costing €2.90. Had the change counted out and in my hand ready to go, predominantly made up of 20c and 50c.

As I was throwing the coins into the basket, my hand hit the door frame and the coins went everywhere! There was a car pulling in behind me so I was too embarrassed to get out and start gathering the coins. So I dug whatever change I had on me at the time, 2 €2 coins and threw them in and drove off.

Spent €6.90 getting through that toll, must be a record!

Tallon

munchkin_utd wrote: »

automatic money counting machines can make mistakes.

It happened the sister last week at a railway ticket machine when she was putting the coins in quickly one after the other that a coin or 2 wasnt registered, but wasnt rejected either.

That us completely irrelevant to what I said

If it happens, complain! Just because the machine made a mistake, doesn't change the fact that you're entitled to get your money back

MidlandsM

fryup wrote: »

say if didn't have the correct change...would they accept notes? a €50 note?

yes, they will

munchkin_utd

Tallon wrote: »

That us completely irrelevant to what I said

If it happens, complain! Just because the machine made a mistake, doesn't change the fact that you're entitled to get your money back

its is relevant as you can be sure that the same counting mechanism is used in more than one type of machine which counts coins!

Del2005

Tallon wrote: »

That us completely irrelevant to what I said

If it happens, complain! Just because the machine made a mistake, doesn't change the fact that you're entitled to get your money back

That's fine if you've time to sit waiting for someone to come out and verify you've tried to pay and it didn't work. If your running late then every second counts.

Tallon

munchkin_utd wrote: »

its is relevant as you can be sure that the same counting mechanism is used in more than one type of machine which counts coins!

Again? What the hell has that got to do with getting your money back?

blastman

What do people think they accept? Green Shield stamps?

Tallon

Del2005 wrote: »

That's fine if you've time to sit waiting for someone to come out and verify you've tried to pay and it didn't work. If your running late then every second counts.

Then get a tag... If you're running late, and you fire all your money in at once and it causes problems then tough sh!t

Del2005

Tallon wrote: »

Then get a tag... If you're running late, and you fire all your money in at once and it causes problems then tough sh!t

I don't think they had tags when I got done. And even if they did it would have taken a few days to get to me so I'd have been even later than the infamous pre upgrade M50 traffic had already made me. Also it would have cost me more than £1 to get a tag.