Ever been stiffed by the 407 ETR?

[Dave Bailey]

And ANOTHER thing - in order to make things easier FOR THEM, they want you to BUY a transponder. Then they charge you a monthly fee for OWNING IT, whether you use their road or not.

 

And thanks to the aforementioned EE, everything is legal. I hope to live long enough to defecate on his grave.

[G.mech]

And ANOTHER thing - in order to make things easier FOR THEM, they want you to BUY a transponder. Then they charge you a monthly fee for OWNING IT, whether you use their road or not.

 

And thanks to the aforementioned EE, everything is legal. I hope to live long enough to defecate on his grave.

 

The 407 sell off was bad but its use is optional and really only affects a few people in the province. Wait til the dust settles on the current Hydro 1 selloff....you may be looking for a different headstone.

Edited December 13, 2015 by G.mech

[tb4me]

I heard that the horrible stretch in Burlington where the HOV lanes are, will now be a HOVT lane as of this summer..Toll to drive on the 403? say what? That should boost business for the 407 ......ticks me off..

[John Bacon]

I heard that the horrible stretch in Burlington where the HOV lanes are, will now be a HOVT lane as of this summer..Toll to drive on the 403? say what? That should boost business for the 407 ......ticks me off..

 

The plan is to allow vehicles with a single occupant use the current HOV lanes if they pay for the privilege. You will still be able to use the 403 for free if you avoid the HOV lanes or have multiple occupants.

 

Drivers of single occupant vehicles gain the option of paying to use the HOV lanes (I am not sure how they are going to enforce that). The ones that don't want to pay are not worse off then they are now.

 

Drivers who carpool may be a little worse off because they will have to share the HOV lanes with more drivers.

[leaf4]

Moving west keeps looking better and better sometimes...

[chris.brock]

Moving west keeps looking better and better sometimes...

 

Amen brother!

 

 

As for the HOV, HOVT stuff, I think the HOV is working and doing what it was intended to do. Where I work, people are car pooling to take advantage of it.

 

I've never heard anyone else mention this, let alone do a study on it, but I think it's crazy dangerous when you have one lane doing 125 and the rest of the lanes doing zero. I've seen some close calls and know a lady who got smoked, thankfully, she is ok.

[jjcanoe]

Get billed for your trailer? Call them and have the extra toll removed, worked every time for me, however don't use preauthorized billing, since you will never see the charge until they have your money, then it's hard to get it back

[JoePa]

I've only been to GTA once in my life - but I'll tell you something - how anyone can put up with living there is beyond me - I'd rather live in a trailer and have a low paying job somewhere out in the bush then to put up with the mess in that big city - but I guess all big cities are pretty much the same - I thank God every day that I was able to live my life in rural Pa. - where the only concern on driving is the deer crossing the road -

[fishermccann]

Or a car-jacking!

[Dutch01]

I've only been to GTA once in my life - but I'll tell you something - how anyone can put up with living there is beyond me - I'd rather live in a trailer and have a low paying job somewhere out in the bush then to put up with the mess in that big city - but I guess all big cities are pretty much the same - I thank God every day that I was able to live my life in rural Pa. - where the only concern on driving is the deer crossing the road -

I'm one of those guys stuck putting up with it. The traffic and sheer numbers of people is intolerable for me. I have 50/50 custody though so I can't move away. You do what you have to I guess. There are lots of good jobs here and my Son is getting a world class education at least (he's in a public school for "gifted kids " so it's like a private school education for free).

 

I would happily live in a trailer or micro cabin north or northeast of here, and most likely will as soon as my Son is grown up and off on his own.

[Headhunter]

 

The plan is to allow vehicles with a single occupant use the current HOV lanes if they pay for the privilege. You will still be able to use the 403 for free if you avoid the HOV lanes or have multiple occupants.

 

Drivers of single occupant vehicles gain the option of paying to use the HOV lanes (I am not sure how they are going to enforce that). The ones that don't want to pay are not worse off then they are now.

 

Drivers who carpool may be a little worse off because they will have to share the HOV lanes with more drivers.

Apparently they are only allowing the sale of 1000 permits for drivers to take advantage of the HOV lane for the coming test area. So how do they determin who they make the sales to?

HH

Edited December 14, 2015 by Headhunter

[Mister G]

Apparently they are only allowing the sale of 1000 permits for drivers to take advantage of the HOV lane for the coming test area. So how do they determin who they make the sales to?

HH

They look to see who you voted for in the last election.........LOL

[ljadug]

Why everybody complains about 407 charges? The problem here not private company which charges a lot of money, but government which is unable to reduce traffic on public roads. If we wouldn't have 407, 401 would be complete mess...

If government could reduce traffic on public HWYs, rates on 407 will go down for sure.

 

Complain to your MP about traffic in your area or try to make enough money to afford 407.

[lew]

 

rates on 407 will go down for sure.

 

 

Yeah, right.