Portugese Slab

[somclan]

Am in a little bit of a rush today to get up to my hotel in time for the match so I use some motorway between Abrantes and Covilha.. The prices are displayed for each section you use and then you go through a rack of cameras . The signs indicate that it is electronic payment. So do they just send me on the bill ?

 

[Roberto]

No- my experience was that you need to register a credit card. I did it simply at point of entry on the Algarve Motorway from Spain but that's the only place I saw to do it by following a bizarre motorway sign marked 'Strangers'.

Just out of interested it worked fine both times a couple of months last year and again with the same card in May and June this year, I didn't need to re-register the same card again.

A couple I met in Braganca had mentioned they had to faff about it in some fashion via the post office. If you're staying at a hotel might be worth asking there how to go about it.

 

[somclan]

Thanks

Decided to do nothing and wait and see what happens .. Will be watching for post man on my return

 

[swissrob]

i went thru a load in may - nothing so far, for a few euro i guess they didnt bother

 

[somclan]

Cheers

i went thru a load in may - nothing so far, for a few euro i guess they didnt bother

That's what I reckon.. Only was on it for about a tenners worth ..

 

[polecat]

Don't know about the credit card bit but I thought you had to go into a post office within 5 days, give them your reg number and pay ?

 

[exceliom]

The cameras are forward facing. You buy scratch cards and txt your reg along with the scratch card number. I bought a tenners worth to get me to my next destination and was unable to purchase any more. I never got the conformation reply txt so never bothered to chase the purchase. I really think that the guy who was explaining the procedure (official) was trying to say don't bother.

 

[swissrob]

The ones I went thru had fwd and rear facing cameras

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[Roberto]

Yep, definitely rear facing ones too, and I got charged pretty accurately.

Even talking of toll motorways really makes me want to go back to Portugal now!