Toll Roads: TAG Lane Etiquette

[threebikesmcginty]

If you haven't got a tag, if it's broken, it has no credit, or if you've no money, cards or anything worthwhile to trade to get you past the barrier, use another *%£€ing lane you tossers.

The next time I will get out of my car, remove the barrier and insert it up the jackson of the offender.

Yeah it's a first world problem, but for those who have taken the effort to be prepared for the journey it's really rather frustrating.

 

[ianrauk]

Where you upset?

 

[Fab Foodie]

All not well in the sawdust business?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Here, have a better life through Chemistry....

 

[nickyboy]

Seems that barriers haven't been installed just yet around here

 

[Crackle]

I don't know what a TAG lane is but we've got fast tag lanes on the mersey tunnel which I use. It's amazing the number of absolute numpties who arrive at the barrier and realize there's nowhere to put their money, though I quite often have a suggestion.

Mind you a long time ago I arrived at the barrier on a motorbike and realized I couldn't get through and had to go through the manned section, so I had to get off the bike and shove it backwards through the gaps in the cars queuing behind me, ride perpendicularly across all the other lanes to the manned section and the when I got there realized all my money was on the inside pocket of four layers. Cue removing gauntlets and gloves, removing scarf, unzipping waterproof, unzipping leather, unzipping other jacket, unzipping pocket, taking out money, waiting for change, putting back change, zipping pocket, zipping jacket, zipping leather, furtling scarf, zipping waterproof, pulling on gloves and gauntlets, kicking into gear and moving off. It's free for motorbikes now: I like to think I played a small part in that decision.

 

[Beebo]

You need the auto billing system like at the dartford crossing. Somehow they have managed to remove the barriers yet make the queue to the tunnels worse than when the barriers were still there.

 

[ianrauk]

You need the auto billing system like at the dartford crossing. Somehow they have managed to remove the barriers yet make the queue to the tunnels worse than when the barriers were still there.

Indeed.. that is a very special king of fekk up isn't it.

 

[Drago]

Just got back from the hossy. I was at the toll booth and dropped my wallet. I was rooting around on the floor for it when some really angry bloke dragged me from my car and shoved the barrier up my bottom. He then caused a huge queue himself when he got his smartphone out and start posting on some website.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

If you haven't got a tag, if it's broken, it has no credit, or if you've no money, cards or anything worthwhile to trade to get you past the barrier, use another *%£€ing lane you tossers.

Agreed but if like me you do not encounter any Toll roads in my daily travels, how do you know the procedure? You slow down to try to make the decision to get in the correct lane then get swamped by cars, vans, lorries doing warp speed not letting you change lanes.

It's free for motorbikes now: I like to think I played a small part in that decision.

Wasn't this due to 3 (I think) motorcyclists being killed at Dartford, being rammed from behind by cars/lorries

 

[Crackle]

Wasn't this due to 3 (I think) motorcyclists being killed at Dartford, being rammed from behind by cars/lorries

Dartford, no idea. Mersey tunnel I thought it was because it just wasn't worth it. Low fee, low volume of motorbikes, long time taken for them to pay, big queues behind.

 

[Drago]

That and the new ANPR cameras being forward facing.

 

[subaqua]

Indeed.. that is a very special king of fekk up isn't it.

If you think about it it is not hard to see how and why it happened .

4 lanes plus the junction and cross laners. The old barriers opened the 4 lanes into a 20 lane holding pen in effect. The barriers regulated flow into tunnel


Only gets really bad heading north though .

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Toll roads. What are these? Turnpikes went out with Dick Turpin did they not?

 

[snorri]

The next time I will get out of my car, remove the barrier and insert it up the jackson of the offender.

Perhaps the driver who annoyed you is on this forum and was annoyed at you describing yourself as a "freeloader" in the text below your avatar?