FabSwingers.com forum: Toll bridges

By *lacksausage OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham Airport

I got so many offers drone Wales it set me thinking, " are these people just trying to raise money for the Welsh govt etc"

Anyway, that was a joke. This is my actual question: is there any form of accountability on the money raised from toll bridges? Is this sort of info somewhere the ordinary man can have a look at?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Google seven bridge .

Possibly changing soon to £3.50 each way

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By *lacksausage OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham Airport

"Google seven bridge .

Possibly changing soon to £3.50 each way

That would mean they are raising at least 70 quid a minute considering the number of kiosks and cars that go through per minute, assuming a tar takes 20 secs to finish paying.

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By *avingabreakMan
over a year ago

Near the Border

that's why there free in Scotland now.....sits back and wait for all the britex complainers lol.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

You know you don't have to pay to get into Wales, right?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a long trip up and around Gloucester . Done it a few times

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By *elson61Man
over a year ago

WELWYN GARDEN CITY

When they completed the Dartford Crossing they promised that once the tolls taken had paid for it they would remove the tolls. That point was reached in about 2003/4, but they reneged on that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's a long trip up and around Gloucester . Done it a few times "
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That's right, now work out how much time and fuel savings have taken place and viola, your better off paying £3:50

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By *lacksausage OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham Airport

Won't it be a good idea if once a year they could pay off the mortgage for one random over 50yr old couple via ballot?

It would make it veeeery easy paying that toll.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's a long trip up and around Gloucester . Done it a few times .

That's right, now work out how much time and fuel savings have taken place and viola, your better off paying £3:50"

I do it if I'm wasting time in work and I get past the bridge turn off and the sat nab says an extra 1 and half hours home and I regret it straight away lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When they completed the Dartford Crossing they promised that once the tolls taken had paid for it they would remove the tolls. That point was reached in about 2003/4, but they reneged on that."

Yes, indeed, and does anyone remember who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The tolls are used to pay back the construction costs and financing on both of the bridges. Once these are paid of they revert to public ownership.

Severn River Crossing plc is the company responsible for them.

I did the tax returns for a couple of years.

Discounted deferred tax ftw

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I go to Cwmbran, I don't take the toll, only costs me an extra 10 minutes. Don't see point in going over the bridge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Where you coming from . Chepstow ?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Darley Abbey Toll Bridge is manned occasionally

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1idgB5SBPo

A TOLL is set to be charged to cross Darley Abbey bridge for the first time in two decades.

The £1 cost for crossing the River Derwent, via Haslam's Lane, will come into force in the next month.

Would post the Derby Evening Telegraph links, but don't fancy a spell on the step

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got so many offers drone Wales it set me thinking, " are these people just trying to raise money for the Welsh govt etc"

Anyway, that was a joke. This is my actual question: is there any form of accountability on the money raised from toll bridges? Is this sort of info somewhere the ordinary man can have a look at?"

I'm fed up with the tyne tunnel charges.

You can buy a pass but the saving is tiny

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