Re: FASTag: All you need to know about procuring & using it! This is purely my gut feeling. At least on BETL (Bangalore Elevated) highway I find that the number of FasTag users have increased. And this includes some good utility vehicles, yellow board taxis etc. Earlier the being a really "lucky man", I invariably used to land up behind 2-3 vehicles all demanding that they pay toll by cash. Now that has actually reduced to 1-0 vehicles. And this is actually saving at least 2-3 minutes of every body's time. Quote:
Originally Posted by mvadg My solution would be to have a single lane of vehicles, equipped with a pre-scanner, approach the toll gates, reject the vehicles with invalid tags into the non-tag stream with a penalty loop to delay them by about 1 KM, by dropping them at an exit point that would be 1 KM behind the entry point. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fillmore If there is no operator they don't care that they are delaying the others. They will simply stall their car right in the middle and block up the entire traffic behind them. |
Agree with @Fillmore. Such a system was there in a few toll plazas (Attibele was one, if I remember correctly) but it failed as the drivers just barged into the FasTag lane. Attibele and BETL toll booths are two areas where I have seen people just itching to pick up a fight. The whole idea seems to prove one's machoness by threatening toll plaza staff and making many other vehicles in the queue. The standard "Yo...Yo..Yo" shouting matches are also common. The toll plazas in TN generally seems to be much more smoothly operated with every one generally minding their business. Quote:
Originally Posted by BenjiRoss A lady got frustrated due to waiting at the toll for half an hour and so decided to open the boomgate and allow vehicles to pass through | Quote:
Originally Posted by Keeleri_Achu Technically, the operators are supposed to open the gates and let off traffic if there are more than five vehicles waiting in the queue. | Quote:
Countless petitions were moved in court against the toll plaza in the past few years, including the ones challenging the cancellation of concession given to locals after the implementation of fastag
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Paliyekkara Toll seems to be a total mess, and from what I could make out every entity involved there have got some thing to hide. Other wise the problems would have got resolved long time back. Govt. of Kerala (not the current one only, even the previous ones) always say that they are "with the people" but so far has not been able to throw out the toll booth or the operator. NHAI is just keeping quite on the issue. The toll booth operators seems to have started collecting the toll even before finishing 70% of the work. But the way they are operating, looks like they have the muscle power & the legal power to collect the tolls. If countless petitions were moved in the court and all of them got thrown out, that means that legally their petitions did NOT have merit. To add to it, there is also very strong resistance to pay tolls in Kerala - even though every one expects first world country infrastructure. Quote:
Originally Posted by Yieldway17 I’m yet to see any source for this belief other than questionable WhatsApp forward materials. Appreciate if anyone can link to an official rule which says so. I regularly see lot of drivers argue with toll clerks for one thing or other quoting WhatsApp messages. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Keeleri_Achu This is a reply given to Mr. Hariom Jindal by NHAI as per the RTI act. Now you've to consider that it is dated back in 2016 |
The link provided by @Yieldway17 is correct. I too remember reading a new notifcation which clearly said that there is nothing like a "wait for more than three minutes, don't pay a toll" rule in India. There could be such rules perhaps in isolated tolled roads, but the agreements drawn up would be different. Take for example the infamous Coimbaotore by-pass built by L&T. This was one of the first PPP model roads and the agreement is between TN Highway Dept, NHAI and L&T. The terms & conditions were way too different from the ones drawn up later. So much so that there is confusion on four-laning of this stretch and ownership of the road after the toll collection period is over. Quote:
Originally Posted by binand Misleading headline.
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If you have a Fastag, your wait time is down - as many people will vouch for with anecdotal evidence. |
As usual, a hatchet job from a biased media outlet. At the first glance people should get a feeling that what ever the preseent Govt is doing is a flop. And to be frank, I do expect lot of resistance when such 'computerized' measures are rolled out. Any body who could swindle money when tolls were paid in cash, will start crying now. |