We're off to the NSW mid nth coast Xmas day. The Linkt website proudly boasts a route checker to show idiots like me just how much time ill waste not using the toll roads. Put in Melb to Port Macquarie ... for the $46 toll ill be buying a microscopic 24min over the 13 hour trip. I grab an extra coffee and ill be enjoy an extra 24min of the true delights only Troopy can provide. Ill be avoiding their stinking tollways
Update
@Bluey, surprise surprise you'll be as shocked (yet delighted) as I was to learn Transurban are just a pack of treacherous lying money-grubbing turds. The measly 24 minutes their convenient
Trip Compare promised that we would save from our Xmas journey north at a oneway cost of $37.54 for a 50km toll on the M7 and M2 Motorways turns out on further research to be not quite accurate, in fact it's a colossal fabrication ..... there's been a revelation of stellar proportions.
(on a side issue the M7 and M2 journey is almost exactly 50k so a one-way trip equates to $75.08 per hour .... more than my local GP earns, and they dont even supply the diesel required to use it. Interesting)
According to our good, and more truthful than Transurban, friends on the InterGoogleWeb avoiding the M7 tollway by exiting the Hume at the interchange at the very start of the M7 and ending up at the same Cumberland Hwy intersection as exiting the M2 tollway actually costs an additional 9min, not the grossly over fabricated 24min as exaggerated by Transurban. You're heading off first, let me know how that pans out
Your welcome, you can thank me later