Highway 7 toll collection starts at 5 Pattaya-area gates

[Rimmer]

Highway 7 toll collection starts at 5 Pattaya-area gates

PATTAYA:-- The end of Songkran marked the start of full operation for five new toll booths along Highway 7 with only minor problems reported after motorists became required to pay to use the motorway.

 

While the new booths at Ban Bung, Bangpra, Nong­kham, Pong, and Pattaya have been open since January, the motorway was still free to use on the Chonburi-Pattaya stretch. That ended on April 19.

 

Tolls are now assessed at one baht per kilometer, or 10-105 baht for four-wheeled vehicles with tolls jumping to 170 baht for six-wheeled vehicles and 245 baht for 10-wheel trucks.

 

Manit Paisalee, head of Pattaya’s special highways office, said only two of the new tollgates – Pong and Nongkham – reported traffic congestion attributed to slow money changing. A 10 percent increase in trucks also was to blame, he said.

 

The Department of Highways plans to increase the number of lanes trucks can use the M-Pass and Easy Pass electronic toll cards. Many drivers don’t understand the system and drove into M-Pass/Easy Pass lanes even though they didn’t have one, contributing to traffic problems, Manit said.

 

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-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-04-27

[wgdanson]

5 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

The Department of Highways plans to increase the number of lanes trucks can use the M-Pass and Easy Pass electronic toll cards

So all the trucks must then use the right hand lanes? Or maybe they will convert say three of the left hand lanes into M Pass, leaving about 2 or 3 for ordinary motorists.

[NCC1701A]

" Many drivers don’t understand the system and drove into M-Pass/Easy Pass lanes..."

 

how is this different than anything that happens on Thailand's highways?

[stereolab]

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

" Many drivers don’t understand the system and drove into M-Pass/Easy Pass lanes..."

 

how is this different than anything that happens on Thailand's highways?

I had the misfortune to drive through the tolls last week, Nong KHai to Pattaya and return, they are shambolic and are accidents waiting to happen. Staff were out at several booths shouting in to loud hailers for drivers to go in a certain direction, but by that stage it is too late, when was the last time a driver here let you change lanes. Cars were going up to the M pass gates at crazy speeds. 

[sungod]

The Rayong Turn off from 7 to 36 is an accident waiting to happen. Massive traffic jams at times blocking all carriageways heading into Pattaya as there are only 2/3 gates.

 

Does anyone know when the disused booths at Panthong will be removed, they also cause problems at peak times.

[topt]

3 hours ago, sungod said:

The Rayong Turn off from 7 to 36 is an accident waiting to happen

Topic already running here....

      

[Sydebolle]

Another way of creating jobs for brainless idiots with university degrees. 

See Japan, which collects tolls with pole-less beams across highways under which you can pass with normal speed; not creating any traffic jam.

The smartest system of them all is operational in Austria and Switzerland. In the latter you buy a sticker (called Vignette) to be affixed on the windscreen for the equivalent of THB 1'600 - per year that is. The sticker cannot be moved and rips to pieces if attempted. Signs at the border posts explain the toll collection system.
If caught without a sticker then the fine is a steep THB 6'800/per case; a clown got caught in the morning, paid the fine and thought he henceforth had dealt with the problem just to get fined a second time before lunch - all excuses were simply ignored. 
In Austria a one-year the sticker (called Pickerl) costs THB 3'300; getting caught without it throws the culprit back upto THB 120'000 (EUR 3'000). Automatic sticker detectors on highways ensure, that this toll collection is absolutely optimized and results in a juicy profit for the government (to be used for maintenance and upgrading of highways). 

But in Thailand, where everything, everybody anywhere is bent, cheated, altered and nicked ............. 

[Sealbash]

Now I want to move to Switzerland or Austria


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[overherebc]

19 hours ago, sungod said:

The Rayong Turn off from 7 to 36 is an accident waiting to happen. Massive traffic jams at times blocking all carriageways heading into Pattaya as there are only 2/3 gates.

 

Does anyone know when the disused booths at Panthong will be removed, they also cause problems at peak times.

Demolition has started, how long it will take I have no idea.

M pass gates seem to be going first.

[digbeth]

On 28/4/2561 at 7:52 AM, Sydebolle said:

Another way of creating jobs for brainless idiots with university degrees. 

See Japan, which collects tolls with pole-less beams across highways under which you can pass with normal speed; not creating any traffic jam.

The smartest system of them all is operational in Austria and Switzerland. In the latter you buy a sticker (called Vignette) to be affixed on the windscreen for the equivalent of THB 1'600 - per year that is. The sticker cannot be moved and rips to pieces if attempted. Signs at the border posts explain the toll collection system.
If caught without a sticker then the fine is a steep THB 6'800/per case; a clown got caught in the morning, paid the fine and thought he henceforth had dealt with the problem just to get fined a second time before lunch - all excuses were simply ignored. 
In Austria a one-year the sticker (called Pickerl) costs THB 3'300; getting caught without it throws the culprit back upto THB 120'000 (EUR 3'000). Automatic sticker detectors on highways ensure, that this toll collection is absolutely optimized and results in a juicy profit for the government (to be used for maintenance and upgrading of highways). 

But in Thailand, where everything, everybody anywhere is bent, cheated, altered and nicked ............. 

Slowing down at the tolls and accelerating out also causes extra pollution around the area of the tolls too

 

Gateless tolls are in many places in the world, Australia, UK, if you don't go to pay at 7-11 or by phone or online you get a fine....

 

but in Thailand, you can't even get people to pay the speed camera ticket and fake number plate is rife