Severn tolls may come out of the dark ages.

[jmorgan]

Flippin eck. Might actually happen. Fed up up of getting cash out out just to come home, the vans often cop the full whack.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/780625...

All in here for why somewhere, opsi in the title. About right then.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1992/ukpga_1992000...


Mind you, be nice if they scrapped the tolls as well.

[LilPeteMordino]

I heard they're waiting till something like 2010 when the agreed amount of profit has been made then handing the bridges back to the goverment with no toll?

Not sure how true that is though.

[pits]

supposed to be when its made 1 billion sterling, not the poncey 1 billion dollars....but it generates that much revenue for the owners, would you actually see it happening? To be fair the toll prices are a joke, last time i came across it was 5.20, now its 5.40, annual 10p rise...more like we put it up 10p in the begining of the new year and half way through, just to irritate people

I dont see why it has taken so long to set up card, its much easier than having to close all the lanes off because someone is 10p short

[spaximus]

It will never be toll free. The company who runs and maintains both bridges now will have to transfer ownership to HMG but it will still need money to maintain it in the future, so can anyone see the goverment letting that go? The only hope for that is if the welsh assembly get ownership then you would see it gone as the South wales area would see a big up lift with business taking advantage of cheap property and workforce.

[S2]

They haven't passed the VAT reduction on so they've just had more than a 10p rise recently

[BountyHunter]

spaximus said:

but it will still need money to maintain it in the future, so can anyone see the goverment letting that go?

surely thats why we pay our road tax, tax on fuel, tax on insurance etc etc