Easy pass. On tollways

[surreybloke]

I find myself using the tollways in Bkk from time to time.    Can someone pls help and tell me where to get an easy pass.   My understanding is that it is a physical card.   So where to buy and where to top up.  Cash is a pain on the tollways
 

also I find myself using route 9. .   Am I right that the mway is only on route 9  ?

[josephbloggs]

11 hours ago, surreybloke said:

I find myself using the tollways in Bkk from time to time.    Can someone pls help and tell me where to get an easy pass.   My understanding is that it is a physical card.   So where to buy and where to top up.  Cash is a pain on the tollways

You can buy them in any expressway office. They are usually located just near the booths at the side of the road. I think you need ID and your car registration book and you will get given a RFID card that sits on your windscreen. Topping up can be done through your bank app if you have a local bank account.

 

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also I find myself using route 9. .   Am I right that the mway is only on route 9  ?

Did you mean M-Flow? M-Flow is currently only on route 9 and is a different thing to Easy Pass. You can use Easy Pass on route 9 though. But if want to also get M-Flow you register for it online - there is no physical card.  https://mflowthai.com/mflow

I have both Easy Pass and M-Flow but to honest M-Flow is so limited at the moment there's probably no point (only four toll points on route 9 have it I believe).

[surreybloke]

Thanks for that

[Yellowtail]

And you can top them up just using your bank app. 

[tifino]

So yesterday was the first time actually using Toll roads... We have always avoided them accepting the extra travel time. We travel Pattaya - Samut Songkran regularly... 

So we did the [7] then [361] [34] chonburj expressway etc. There was one toll point on [7] we collect that card then onto the [361] a Tollpoint with the 40baht cash. All good we carry on bit at the next tollpoint we again expect to find a cash booth but no there were only  three Easypass and an mpass drive thru... 

Getting worried now as we are in a rental with written rules about to avoid these mpass booths... 

Anyways steaming along to where we are departing the expressway to get to the [35] ... toll both approaching... so this time there IS a cash booth... 

At the booth now and not sure whether we cop some sort of fine from the earlier drivethru of the Easypass booth?... I hold out some cash.  She asks for about 130baht...

These toll routes are weird... but as a minimum at least I now know it is I guess a  170baht each way trip?!? 

[CallumWK]

7 minutes ago, tifino said:

All good we carry on bit at the next tollpoint we again expect to find a cash booth but no there were only  three Easypass and an mpass drive thru... 

 

Impossible a tollpoint without cash boot, as you would not have been able to pass.

[msbkk]

Krungthai bank offers a tollway card, take a look at this link

 

M-Pass card

https://en/personal/cards/cash-card-top-up-card/54

[tifino]

38 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Impossible a tollpoint without cash boot, as you would not have been able to pass.

That's what I thought !  On the Right the M pass thru. From the Left ALL had Easypass with a bright yellow 'A' lit above... I think this where the Bangkok bound [7] splits up between the shorter route (which we took) and the longer [7] route that swings further north east.

[CallumWK]

2 hours ago, tifino said:

That's what I thought !  On the Right the M pass thru. From the Left ALL had Easypass with a bright yellow 'A' lit above... I think this where the Bangkok bound [7] splits up between the shorter route (which we took) and the longer [7] route that swings further north east.

 

I know on the elevated highway between Chonburi and Bangkok are automatic gates. You just pass through them, no need to take a card, and where you they know where you entered and you pay cash.

I assume there are similar gates on other tollways

[tifino]

16 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

I know on the elevated highway between Chonburi and Bangkok are automatic gates. You just pass through them, no need to take a card, and where you they know where you entered and you pay cash.

I assume there are similar gates on other tollways

Thanx that is what seems to be... must use numberplate recog for evelyting...