[khoj]

Someone in ICICI needs a dose of common sense. All POS are around the NH only, sure that makes sense but what about city dwellers who want to buy the tag.

Do the boffins at ICICI expect one to make a trip to these remote locations first to pick up the tag and then start the actual trip.

I reside 30 kms away from GGN and my highway trips generally start at day break. That means I need to make a 60 km run trip just to get the tag as surely the ICICI branch will not be open until after 9am and even then there is no guarantee that the person who locked up the tags in their drawers are available in the bank or have taken the day off on account of a headache in their tummy.

I would be better off sweating it in the toll lanes rather than spending the better half of a day in the tagging game.

POS are required where people can easily buy them both near the highways and within the cities. Infact why can't their ATM locations be equipped with tag vending machines, why do we have to go to a branch at all.

[honeybee]

Originally Posted by shyampsunder

I notified on the first toll coming from Salem on NH7 towards bangalore that non fastag vehicles entering fastag lanes will have to pay double the toll. Do you guys think that this is enough of a deterrent to vehicles? Don't you think that some vehicles will start using this as some kind of premium lane by paying the double toll and thus defeating the purpose of this concept?

Where people are generally reluctant to pay in the first place, I doubt if anyone will willingly pay twice the amount as fine (maybe also the toll separately). Also the tag holders will increase over a period of time to ensure these dedicated lanes will no longer be a quick getaway.

[shyampsunder]

Originally Posted by honeybee

Where people are generally reluctant to pay in the first place, I doubt if anyone will willingly pay twice the amount as fine (maybe also the toll separately). Also the tag holders will increase over a period of time to ensure these dedicated lanes will no longer be a quick getaway.

The whole point of these ETC lanes are for people to get through tolls without stopping.
I desperately hope that people adopt ETC in big numbers else you will have toll owners allowing non ETC vehicles into ETC lanes because no one is using those lanes.

[Wind]

There was a FASTTag inauguration ceremony going on at Krishnagiri Toll Plaza ( Bengaluru- Chennai sector) today afternoon. Here is the poster displayed at the toll booth.

-- Wind

From The Times of India dated 27 July 2015, Chennai edition, pages 1 and 4:





From The Hindu:

[sachinpk]

Originally Posted by honeybee

Also the tag holders will increase over a period of time to ensure these dedicated lanes will no longer be a quick getaway.

In that case perhaps they would also increase the number of FASTag equipped toll booths proportionately, and perhaps 10-15 years down the line all booths being FASTag ready .

[Dry Ice]

Originally Posted by shyampsunder

Do you guys think that this is enough of a deterrent to vehicles? Don't you think that some vehicles will start using this as some kind of premium lane by paying the double toll and thus defeating the purpose of this concept?

Originally Posted by honeybee

Where people are generally reluctant to pay in the first place, I doubt if anyone will willingly pay twice the amount as fine (maybe also the toll separately). Also the tag holders will increase over a period of time to ensure these dedicated lanes will no longer be a quick getaway.

Fair point.

I think, these lanes will now have all the "Police", "MLA", "MP" vehicles who are looking for a free pass

[Waxeloquent]

Given concepts like lane discipline are foreign, separate lanes for Fastag vehicles will be a non-starter. No fine, no entry bars will work. After buying Fastag we will be forced to tag along other vehicles. Secondly why banks should be asked to be the channel for selling these tags, why not Flipkart, Snap Deal......? What value addition by banks? Am I missing something?
Cheers

[sachinpk]

Originally Posted by Waxeloquent

Secondly why banks should be asked to be the channel for selling these tags, why not Flipkart, Snap Deal......? What value addition by banks? Am I missing something?

May be because money is involved, the device should get credited with the money. There would be lots of people who still don't buy stuff from FlipKart or SnapDeal (but may be visting banks) .

[Waxeloquent]

Originally Posted by sachinpk

May be because money is involved, the device should get credited with the money. There would be lots of people who still don't buy stuff from FlipKart or SnapDeal (but may be visting banks) .

I'd then prefer PSUS petrol pumps to sell them. Banks are a hassle, limited working hours.... Cheers

[pannags]

Originally Posted by Wind

There was a FASTTag inauguration ceremony going on at Krishnagiri Toll Plaza ( Bengaluru- Chennai sector) today afternoon. Here is the poster displayed at the toll booth.
-- Wind

Hopefully, the infamously long wait times at peak hours reduce by a considerable time. I wonder if the electronic city tool gates are also Fastag compliant?! It had better be

Originally Posted by Waxeloquent

Given concepts like lane discipline are foreign, separate lanes for Fastag vehicles will be a non-starter. No fine, no entry bars will work. After buying Fastag we will be forced to tag along other vehicles. Secondly why banks should be asked to be the channel for selling these tags, why not Flipkart, Snap Deal......? What value addition by banks? Am I missing something?
Cheers

Originally Posted by sachinpk

May be because money is involved, the device should get credited with the money. There would be lots of people who still don't buy stuff from FlipKart or SnapDeal (but may be visting banks) .

Firstly, you need to submit necessary documentation to the bank for them to issue you an RFID tag.

and why?

Source: http://bankingfrontiers.com/

"As your vehicle crosses toll plazas, the information is passed to the prepaid account created at the central clearing house set up by the bank and the applicable toll amount is deducted and transferred to the concessionaire's account electronically."

[poloman]

I think this is going to help the commercial transport companies in a big way. They can centralize their toll receipts. In the current setup many drivers deviate from highways just to save on the toll which ultimately end up in their pockets.

[avira_tk]

Originally Posted by pannags

Hopefully, the infamously long wait times at peak hours reduce by a considerable time. I wonder if the electronic city tool gates are also Fastag compliant?! It had better be

They aspire to be, the whole place was decked up for a Puja when I passed it yesterday, all the fast tag logos were covered with flowers and banana leaves. I doubt any efficiency improvements will come about though, the average users have zero manners on a normal basis the private car owners are usually worse than the cabbies, educashun levels notwithstanding.

[honeybee]

Originally Posted by Dry Ice

Fair point.

I think, these lanes will now have all the "Police", "MLA", "MP" vehicles who are looking for a free pass

Hmmm these lanes will most likely be automated, so you don't have to slow down to a crawl. Just slow down enough to allow the system to read your tag and raise the barrier. Also the barrier would always be down by default. If one wants to simply muscle his way through he will still have to use the manual toll lanes.

[bharat4ever]

I registered for the Fastag on the ICICI website. And the message I get at the end is "Please continue your account process with nearest agent by submitting the selected documents.".

When I look at the list of POS, there's nothing in Bangalore. Does anyone know how to proceed with this, in Bangalore?