no longer updated - Tolls on the A22

[pickwick]

Hi

They must be as my Via Verde device "beeped" as I passed the gantries!!

Pickwick

[jamielyon4]

Hi all

This is what the A22 looked like this morning at 11am !!

ipod photos 11 087.jpg

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Mine, all mine!!!!!

Pickwick

and the EWN125 looked like this

[Michael Crane]

I have added a pdf of the tolls and exits map. It is clearer and can be saved/printed out as needed. I have placed it HERE.

[LICY]

Hi all

This is what the A22 looked like this morning at 11am !!

ipod photos 11 087.jpg

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Mine, all mine!!!!!

Pickwick

P it just looks like woods, not a road!
Now seen the later post of the N125. did you actually get caught up in that?
I'll keep wafting in readiness for the 30th.

[martin]

first day report

see here

http://algarvedailynews.com/news/5251-a ... launch-day

[pickwick]

Dear LICY

Scroll the photo down and you will see the motorway!! Managed to avoid the "queue on the 125 pictured"

Pickwick

[Gambrinus]

Traffic increase from Portimão to Lagoa was already noticeable this morning at 08.15h.

[Rob F]

'Via Verde in Lisbon reasoned that motorists using the A22 motorway without the transponder could do so, but had a limited period in which to contact their nearest CTT post office where they could pay their debt.

Once this period has elapsed, which is estimated by Via Verde to be five days, a letter will be sent to the address of the motorists who, in addition to the cost of travelling on the motorway, will be liable to “administrative costs”.

It has since emerged that an administrative cost of 30 cents per passage without a transponder will be charged in addition to the toll fee.

Drivers of foreign registered vehicles, but who do not have a Portuguese bank account will need to rent a transponder from the Via Verde office in Faro. This is the only venue in the Algarve where this type of transponder can be rented from for now.

Drivers arriving from Spain will be able to visit an automatic kiosk at the border where a pre-paid and temporary transponder can be rented for periods of one, three and five days.

Another kiosk will be available at the Olhão service station on the A22.'

source: The Portugal News

[e-richard]

I think this article in the Resident has to be the funniest "update" on the subject so far

[laserblazer]

Bit of a joke, to say the least. Tolls are now in force but they don't know how rental cars will be charged!

[martin]

post office site to see if you owe anything

http://www.ctt.pt/fectt/wcmservlet/ctt/ ... divida.jsp

[laserblazer]

The English page is under construction.

[roy4eyes]

The knock-on effect of the tolls is that it took 30 minutes with 16 people in the queue before me to post a parcel yesterday

[logicbob]

The knock-on effect of the tolls is that it took 30 minutes with 16 people in the queue before me to post a parcel yesterday

I bet you are glad it is not the summer, you would have been there all day.

[joeysoap]

arrived yesterday. At the airport now after going through the baggage reclaim area you walk to the very end of the terminal, and cross over the road, along a 'makeshift' pathway till you are abour 1/2 back, then crossover the road again, walk to the very end of the terminal, cross both roads and P4 is there, right on the roundabout.

was informed by renting company that even if I wanted to I could not pay the toll for the return journey as the system would not allow it. Company are going to retain credit card impress and will debit the amount they are charged, stated that I would receive an email detailing the amount and that the time the car was returned through the barrier at the airport would be the end of liability period for tolls. didn't state how much they are going to charge for this service and I forgot to ask. He said they woud then destroy the cc impress docket. As I have often just posted the keys into a van at the airport I am not to bothered about this last bit.

there was very few cars on the motorway yesterday and only 1 truck, Spanish and returning to Spain. Have to say the 125 was also not busy from Alcantarilha either, which I didn't expect, but it was well off peak time (3pm) when I entered the 125.