16 augustus 2017

Toll road signs

Driving by car in Norway means paying toll regularly, as least in the area where we were. On bigger ongoing roads this happens automatically: a sign indicates that you reach a stretch -sometimes a tunnel or a bridge- that requires money. Cameras above the road read the licence number and voilá. The average amount of these stretches is about NOK 25, sometimes less, sometimes more. (NOK 100 is roughly EUR 10). We live in the Netherlands so we can most likely expect an invoice that we will have to pay -hope it all fits on 1 page haha ;)))

Obviously the smaller toll roads have no cameras. Here we had to put money in an envelope and write our licence plate no. on it, fill in a similar ticket to put behind the window screen, and once more voilá :)

I'm linking to signs, signs.

15 opmerkingen:

  1. Dat is nogal een administratie met nog een naheffing straks :)

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  2. Quite surprising as this depends so much on being honest!

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  3. ...here we have 'Easy Pass' to pay for tolls.

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  4. Thank goodness our freeways aren't tolled Marleen.. yet! I think they've talked about it a few times but has been shot down! I don't understand the toll situation on roads, why do they do it ?

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  5. I can see that adding up fast.

    One of our major freeways is tolled. A previous provincial government had the bone headed idea of selling off rights to it for a century to a private firm that regularly screws people over with no accountability.

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  6. voor personenwagens hebben we dat bij ons gelukkig niet...

    enkel voor de Liefkenshoektunnel in Antwerpen wordt tol geheven

    vreemd systeem daar op de kleine wegen

    groeten

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  7. That could be expensive if yo drive a lot. Honesty for the smaller roads, I wonder how many people don't follow the rules figuring that they already pay enough on the main roads.

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  8. Wow - the honour system toll road is certainly not something you might ever see here!

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  9. I like that they trust people to do the right thing. :-)

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  10. One must be honest on the smaller roads. Beautiful countryside
    MB

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  11. That is interesting ... we don't have any here in Oregon, but we've driven them when traveling in other parts of the country. We have to stop at booths because only people with a pass can drive straight through and get billed by their license. The honor system I have not seen on toll roads, but it is often used to register in Campgrounds or forest service parks.

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