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Dart Charge and the London Congestion charge have worked pretty much perfectly on this system for years, with ANPR and direct debiting. Regular users open an account (and get a discount iirc). Occasional users pay on the net within 24 hours by card. If you register your card with them it only takes seconds. If you're a paranoid old git like me who doesn't volunarily give up card details, it takes a minute longer.
Either way, you rarely get queues at Dartford anymore. Also, the first time you forget, they let you off with a warning.
Before anyone starts, I don't believe this but here goes. Our lass was told by one of our neighbours that the Tyne Tunnel are going to scrap payment booths and the only way you will be able to go through is by pre-booking on the internet or getting a season ticket. This idea seems ridiculous for a number of reasons but I just wanted to check with the collective brain of the SMB to make sure I am not going insane!
Anyone heard anything??
Removing the barriers would make a massive difference, especially once Silverlink is finished
I used my grandad's badge when I dropped them off and picked them up at the ferry port last year; he is disabled but it occurred to me that when I used it on the way back (without him) no-one came out to check. If they had, they probably wouldn't have accepted "I'm picking this disabled guy up" as an excuse for me using a blue badge. Oops.I just press the assistance button and tell the fella I’m a blue badge holder. Been doing g it for near enough 2 years now and never once been checked, barrier just lifts and away I go
I used the mother in laws to pick her up, on the way through when she wasn’t in the car, they didn’t say anything, on the way back, they asked if the badge holder was in the car, which she was, but not sure what would have happened if she wasn’t as they don’t need to be in the car for legitimate use.I used my grandad's badge when I dropped them off and picked them up at the ferry port last year; he is disabled but it occurred to me that when I used it on the way back (without him) no-one came out to check. If they had, they probably wouldn't have accepted "I'm picking this disabled guy up" as an excuse for me using a blue badge. Oops.
Since 2014 when the Dartford removed its pay-booths 1,160,000 vehicles have failed to pay the toll charge. I thought when the system was introduced that those who came up with the idea were being very optimistic.
They do chase them like, i read something saying a third of revenue was through fines.I wonder how far they persue the fines to the non-payers. I doubt they care too much though, because the payers will be covering the cost of the non-payers. Similar to the Metro up here.
They do chase them like, i read something saying a third of revenue was through fines.
Begs the question why they put the booths in when they did the second tunnel, the technology was there to do away with it then.When you change the road layout to allow vehicles to get to the tunnel quicker it's the only way you can do it.
Otherwise you will have traffic queues worse than ever before.
Begs the question why they put the booths in when they did the second tunnel, the technology was there to do away with it then.
This. If you forget to pay you'll be issued with a fine.
Juices?Owt that gets things flowing from the tunnel is a good thing.
Well done, that's the ANPR cameras programmed to identify a Bentley registered JGC 1 to suffer an unfortunate "accident" with a malfunctioning barrier!I just press the assistance button and tell the fella I’m a blue badge holder. Been doing g it for near enough 2 years now and never once been checked, barrier just lifts and away I go
I think that foreign tourists going through/ over the Dartford crossing ( of which there are many given that it's en route to the Channel) are unlikely to be aware of how to pay even were it was in their interests to find out. As they are told that they have to pay on line by midnight they probably think " Sod it we will be half way across the continent by then." I can imagine what they do with a penalty notice if they are sent one.I wonder how far they persue the fines to the non-payers. I doubt they care too much though, because the payers will be covering the cost of the non-payers. Similar to the Metro up here.
Totally agree - I don't see why these projects are privately financed with us paying for it. Everyone needs roads, if some roads are more expensive than others, so be it. Nobody wants to drive to work on an "expensive" route, they just want to get there.Load of fuckin shite.
It should be free anyway.
They need to enact a new bylaw to be allowed to remove them. I expect they'd have more chance getting this done if the number plate cameras were already installed and proven to be working.Begs the question why they put the booths in when they did the second tunnel, the technology was there to do away with it then.