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Toll tags!

  • 26-11-2015 11:02am
    #1
    ajw08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭


    I've been reading a bit about the different tolls tags and would love some help deciding. I travel from Galway to Enfield maybe twice a month. That's 1.90 in ballinasloe and 2.90 in Enfield plus the same return. 9.60 total for both ways. I use the m50 rarely maybe 3 or 4 times in the year. Is it worth getting a tag? Apologies if this is in the wrong section.


Comments

  • #2
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    I wouldn't get one for that amount of travel especially when you can avoid the Enfield one. There is a thread on here somewhere about the tags, a few different ones are mentioned, have a look.


  • #3
    curiosity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭curiosity


    TL DR; getting a tag is paying a bit extra for convenience.


    The main reasons (imo) for getting/using a tag are avoiding the hassle of having change on you, as well as being able to avail of the express lane.

    Both the M4 & M6 offer prepay trip cards, with a 10% discount

    http://www.eurolink-m4.ie/means_of_payment.html
    http://www.n6concession.com/index.php/toll-rates/toll-payment-methods/

    Any tag will have a monthly fee of 1.23 or so. Any of the tags offered by companies here will allow you to use any tool road. A tag gives you €1 off per trip on the M50, no discount on other tolls. There's also a video account for the M50, giving 50 cent off.

    https://www.eflow.ie/help-guidance/faqs/what-is-the-difference-be/
    http://www.etoll.ie/getting-a-tag/irish-tag-companies/

    From the travel info you've given, (2 Enfield-Galway/month, 4 M50 trips a year, return too?), having a toll would run you €7 more than cash (assuming you pay €3.10 on the M50). Using prepay for the M4 & M6 with a video account for the M50 would save you €15 over cash.


  • #4
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    curiosity wrote: »
    Any tag will have a monthly fee of 1.23 or so. Any of the tags offered by companies here will allow you to use any tool road. A tag gives you €1 off per trip on the M50, no discount on other tolls. There's also a video account for the M50, giving 50 cent off.

    The discounts are only on the westlink toll on the M50, between the N3 & N4. There's no discount on the tunnel, between the M1 and Dublin Port.


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