Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules

M50 toll dodging

Options
  • 19-08-2018 10:21pm
    #1
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭


    Coming up to the toll earlier I had a 3 series right on my bumper, looked like he was trying to dodge the cameras. I thought they countered that by reading the rear plate too, or did they?

    In any case, I floored it just before the gantry so his plate was read, bit weird.


«1

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,147 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    My understanding is they have cameras positioned to read both the front and rear number plates.


  • Options
    #3
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    bazz26 wrote: »
    My understanding is they have cameras positioned to read both the front and rear number plates.

    Yes you’re correct. They changed it several years ago as the practice the OP experienced was regularly occurring.


  • Options
    #4
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    I still find morons trying it on the other tolls. Or going slow in front so you close the gap and the barrier opens for them. I now go slow through so I've plenty of reaction time.


  • Options
    #5
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    How can you tell if he was trying to dodge the toll or if he was just the average BMW driver? ;)


  • Options
    #6
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,631 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I still find morons trying it on the other tolls. Or going slow in front so you close the gap and the barrier opens for them. I now go slow through so I've plenty of reaction time.

    Yep majorly at watergrasshill. It's a bit slow anyway. Had a guy jump in in front of me one morning and crawl along. Caught me completely and shot through on my tag.

    Won't fall for that again


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,315 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Is there a way to report these dicks? Had one tailgate me through a toll booth a few days ago.


  • Options
    #8
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    Yep majorly at watergrasshill. It's a bit slow anyway. Had a guy jump in in front of me one morning and crawl along. Caught me completely and shot through on my tag.

    Won't fall for that again

    You don't get charged for it as the computers pick up that you've gone through twice at the same time.

    It's dangerous as fook when the cut you up at the last second to do it.


  • Options
    #9
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    tuxy wrote: »
    How can you tell if he was trying to dodge the toll or if he was just the average BMW driver? ;)

    Rarely ever a BMW driver. Nearly always a VW or Audi


  • Options
    #10
    JimmyAlfonso
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭JimmyAlfonso


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    You don't get charged for it as the computers pick up that you've gone through twice at the same time.

    It's dangerous as fook when the cut you up at the last second to do it.

    That barrier is a pain though, if you exceed 50kph it drops and you have to swing by the booth. Might explain the extreme slowing up of driver in front.


  • Options
    #11
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭xabi


    tuxy wrote: »
    How can you tell if he was trying to dodge the toll or if he was just the average BMW driver? ;)

    I had a better BMW than him :cool:


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    arleitiss
    Registered Users Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭arleitiss


    Was this M1 Fast Lane?


  • Options
    #13
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    arleitiss wrote: »
    Was this M1 Fast Lane?
    M50 BMW lane


  • Options
    #14
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    I've had a few chancing the old trick of trying to crawl ahead of you in the express lane. It's brilliant when you can **** it up for them.


  • Options
    #15
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    I still find morons trying it on the other tolls. Or going slow in front so you close the gap and the barrier opens for them. I now go slow through so I've plenty of reaction time.

    The barrier in the M1 came down and hit the top of your car one morning when a van did just that.

    Frightened the **** out of me, now I always slow down until I see that the car in front has been tagged.


  • Options
    #16
    ExoPolitic
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭ExoPolitic


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Rarely ever a BMW driver. Nearly always a VW or Audi

    All the d**ks have swapped to Audis and VWs, I concur!


  • Options
    #17
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    amcalester wrote: »
    The barrier in the M1 came down and hit the top of your car one morning when a van did just that.

    Frightened the **** out of me, now I always slow down until I see that the car in front has been tagged.

    I almost had the same in Portlaoise. Clipped the roof but no damage.


  • Options
    #18
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭tedpan


    arleitiss wrote:
    Was this M1 Fast Lane?


    Fast lane? We don't have those in Ireland


  • Options
    #19
    arleitiss
    Registered Users Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭arleitiss


    tedpan wrote: »
    Fast lane? We don't have those in Ireland

    I mean express toll lane :pac:


  • Options
    #20
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    tedpan wrote: »
    Fast lane? We don't have those in Ireland

    You just think that cause you don't have a bmw


  • Options
    #21
    Lord Nikon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    xabi wrote: »
    Coming up to the toll earlier I had a 3 series right on my bumper, looked like he was trying to dodge the cameras. I thought they countered that by reading the rear plate too, or did they?

    In any case, I floored it just before the gantry so his plate was read, bit weird.

    Perhaps you were driving too slow in the first place? Do you drive a Toyota?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    Lord Nikon
    Registered Users Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    What :confused:

    He assumed the other driver was dodging the toll camera. One could argue the OP was driving too slow, and the other driver was right up behind him, because he was driving too slow or slowed down too much.


  • Options
    #23
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Lord Nikon wrote: »
    He assumed the other driver was dodging the toll camera. One could argue the OP was driving too slow, and the other driver was right up behind him, because he was driving too slow or slowed down too much.

    How does tailgating help increase the speed of the car in front?


  • Options
    #24
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭xabi


    Lord Nikon wrote: »
    He assumed the other driver was dodging the toll camera. One could argue the OP was driving too slow, and the other driver was right up behind him, because he was driving too slow or slowed down too much.

    FFS are you for real? I was in lane one doing slightly over 100, in any case its no excuse for tailgating.


  • Options
    #25
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    xabi wrote: »
    FFS are you for real? I was in lane one doing slightly over 100, in any case its no excuse for tailgating.

    Or speeding :p:p


  • Options
    #26
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Lord Nikon wrote: »
    He assumed the other driver was dodging the toll camera. One could argue the OP was driving too slow, and the other driver was right up behind him, because he was driving too slow or slowed down too much.

    Drivers that do this are twats.


  • Options
    #27
    decky1
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭decky1


    IS it time tolls were done away with? how much a day do they make and where does the money go?


  • Options
    #28
    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭xabi


    Avatar MIA wrote: »
    Or speeding :p:p

    Only slightly speeding


  • Options
    #29
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,907 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    decky1 wrote: »
    IS it time tolls were done away with? how much a day do they make and where does the money go?

    Tolls aren't going away, they are going to become ubiquitous. They can't lose the cash cow from motoring when we go to EV so the solution is charge per km


  • Options
    #30
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Del2005 wrote: »
    Tolls aren't going away, they are going to become ubiquitous. They can't lose the cash cow from motoring when we go to EV so the solution is charge per km

    Yes tolls to pay for roads that the government won't fund. But of course they extend the dates as they make serious money. A quick google claims the m50 made €110m in 2014.

    I've never driven a car in France but apparently they have a crazy amount of tolls, expect the same here in time. Good point on EV cars, the government are already looking for ways to get back money they have lost from motor tax because people are driving cars with lower CO2 emissions.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    arleitiss
    Registered Users Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭arleitiss


    tuxy wrote: »
    Yes tolls to pay for roads that the government won't fund. But of course they extend the dates as they make serious money. A quick google claims the m50 made €110m in 2014.

    I've never driven a car in France but apparently they have a crazy amount of tolls, expect the same here in time. Good point on EV cars, the government are already looking for ways to get back money they have lost from motor tax because people are driving cars with lower CO2 emissions.

    Drove across France (From Paris to Alps, around 800 Km)

    Paid well over 80 Euro in Tolls, was going on main motorway and there was a toll every 70/80 km or so.


    Also I think they are taking down your average speed between toll points (Because I got fine in the post for speeding and motorway is the only road I drove on)


Advertisement