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Forth and Tay Road Bridge tolls to be removed

 
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Cherskiy



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:05 pm    Post subject: Forth and Tay Road Bridge tolls to be removed Reply with quote

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6705939.stm

The current Forth Road Bridge tolls seem to me to be a little half-hearted - they only apply to northbound traffic (the southbound ones were removed a few years back). I also liked the comment about more congestion forecasted for the bridge - northbound queues at peak periods are usually caused by drivers having to stop for the toll booths!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tolling in the US is only on one leg of the trip ie. the theory is that you collect twice what you would charge for a single trip on the basis that most people will be making a return journey at some stage anyway. It eases the congestion by doing it that way.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:21 am    Post subject: Re: Forth and Tay Road Bridge tolls to be removed Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6705939.stm

The current Forth Road Bridge tolls seem to me to be a little half-hearted - they only apply to northbound traffic (the southbound ones were removed a few years back). I also liked the comment about more congestion forecasted for the bridge - northbound queues at peak periods are usually caused by drivers having to stop for the toll booths!


I suspect the forecasted increased congestion is because some of the traffic which currently uses the Edinburgh Bypass and M9 to and from Stirling, Perth and the North will be tempted to take the free "short cut" round the north of the city onto the A90, Forth Bridge, and M90.

At the moment there is major construction work, not only resurfacing the road on the bridge but also remodelling the roads south of it and providing a new link from the M8/M9 presumably to benefit traffic from Glasgow and the West. It's murr-durr there.

The vote to remove the tolls was just part of the wider and more important issue of traffic management, in particular the desirability of an Edinburgh tram system and airport link, against the widening to dual carriageway standard of the whole of the A9 up to Inverness, which the new minority SNP government is trying to grapple with. On my hols up there last week there was little else on the news.
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Mark Mayhew



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would Government ever be brave enough to dispense with the tolls on Dartford Bridge/Tunnel crossing.

I think not.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

(For Government read Parliament as, to be fair, they would presumably have the vote)

Certainly not this one, consisting as it does with a load of Scots. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark Mayhew wrote:
Would Government ever be brave enough to dispense with the tolls on Dartford Bridge/Tunnel crossing.

I think not.



They were supposed too after about 10 years the greedy government have kept it going? It must have paid for itself by now? The times I have been across it and paid my money the grumpy old cashiers wish they are not there.
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