80 cents! In 1980.
Always fumbled getting one out, dropped the packet, ran out. Queued up at the manned booths
Everyone except the booth operators were happy to see the toll go.
Posted by OrdinaryDependent396
80 cents! In 1980.
Always fumbled getting one out, dropped the packet, ran out. Queued up at the manned booths
Everyone except the booth operators were happy to see the toll go.
Posted by OrdinaryDependent396
9 Comments
Wow! When did they cease using these?
Ahhh. The good old days. When tolls remained until the road was paid off.
An end of an era. Tolls used to cease once a project was paid off.
Interestingly the toll was removed before the bridge was paid off.
At the time, the West Gate Fwy just ended at what is now Rogers St (connecting to Lorrimer St). It really wasn’t worth the toll compared to the old routes, and people avoided the bridge like the plague.
So they removed the toll to encourage more use of the bridge.
Kind of like the current West Gate Tunnel, not worth the toll and goes nowhere…. but when its extended to the Eastern Freeway creating a more viable East-West route than the Monash, usage will explode.
$4.33 in today’s dollars
https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html
My uncle used to collect the tolls. He had loads of stories, dead now.
You all realize that the current government cut a deal with Transurban to reinstate tolls on the Westgate bridge for trucks right?
Just because it’s paid off this hasn’t stopped the most corrupt government in the history of this state from using it to find yet another way to pay for their financial incompetence.
Wow
And now the West Gate has got tolls agin, at least for trucks.