Topic: 2015 407 Etr rates

[quadzilla]

Last month we chose to use the 407 as we had to go up to north Toronto. Just got my bill.

This month's charges
Toll charges $21.16
Trip toll charges (2 @ $1.00 per trip) $2.00
Camera charges (2 @ $4.15 per trip) $8.30
Account fee $3.95
Filler Total charges this month $35.41

Now I accept the crazy per km charge but the three extra BS fees are nothing more than a big you.

And if you think that is expensive, we got a break for the trip down as it didn't record correctly on entry or exit so it would have been another 12 bucks?

22 Jan 19 9:37 PM Entry-Yonge -- -- 3.75  Entry or exit not recorded - flat toll charged.
23 Jan 19 3:57 PM Keele-Hwy401 36.117 0.4820 17.41
Total for all trips 36.1km $21.16

[Allen]

407 is expensive, but the best road to get anywhere fast in TO, If i have to go across the city I always take it even on weekends... get a transponder for $25 annually and save the camera fees and you also get a bit of a lower KM rate...

[Brig]

407 is expensive, but the best road to get anywhere fast in TO, If i have to go across the city I always take it even on weekends... get a transponder for $25 annually and save the camera fees and you also get a bit of a lower KM rate...

 

Much cheaper with a transponder.

[Dante]

Expensive but worthwhile if you need to move fast. I used it every day for 7 years for my commute to work. Across Toronto in under 10 min summer or winter, morning or evening . I don't think I've seen a hand full of accidents all these years and even when they happened they were dealt with fast.

[random006]

Expensive but worthwhile if you need to move fast. I used it every day for 7 years for my commute to work. Across Toronto in under 10 min summer or winter, morning or evening . I don't think I've seen a hand full of accidents all these years and even when they happened they were dealt with fast.

Ditto 

We used it going to and from the Niagara Falls region a couple of years back.  Fast, smooth road, with people going 125+ km/h.  We got our bill and paid it quite happily given the grid lock from which we were saved by using it.  If we ever had second thoughts, all we had to do was to look out the car window where the two highways were close and see for ourselves.

What I have always found weird was that the technology employed in monitoring usage for cost purposes could in theory be used for speeding violations.  If you know when and where one got on and off, it is child's play to compute the average speed.  Yet nobody was pulled over and we never saw a ticket in the mail.  Just the expected bill for use of the 407.