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Dartford Crossing Toll charge to go up by 50p (ed. up to 2.50 soon)

Fortune 82nd Minute
Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,338
edited September 2014 in Not Sports Related
Govt announced today the toll charge at Dartford is to go up from £1.50 to £2 for cars. See http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/transport/dartford-crossing-toll-charge-to-go-up-by-50p-7778242.html

That's a 33% increase. Other Govt figures out today show inflation has fallen to 3%. This Government must think we are complete idiots.
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  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Not bad considering they said it would be free once it had paid for itself. Greedy b******s!!
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    A Tory increase? Whatever next.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,336
    It must speed things up. Glad it's £2
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    That's a 33% increase. Other Govt figures out today show inflation has fallen to 3%. This Government must think we are complete idiots.
    We are, we'll continue to pay it and just moan on internet forums. ;-)

  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Govt announced today the toll charge at Dartford is to go up from £1.50 to £2 for cars. See http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/transport/dartford-crossing-toll-charge-to-go-up-by-50p-7778242.html

    That's a 33% increase. Other Govt figures out today show inflation has fallen to 3%. This Government must think we are complete idiots.
    Also says in the same article that there have been no increases for 4 years, so your 33% increase spread out over those years is more like 8% a year. Don't get me wrong I'm all for a bit of Tory bashing but if you are going to quote an annual indicator such as inflation I think using a 4 year increase is a bit unfair
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    A Tory increase? Whatever next.
    I believe it was a Labour government that went back on the promise to make it free once the building costs were recouped.

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    another reason to not go to Essex
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    You love Essex
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    another reason to not go to Essex
    Never a truer work spoken......................
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    tossers, although no great surprise.

    use it near enough every day due to work but am now looking at other ways of crossing the Thames.
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  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,149
    Another reason to not go to away games
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    blackwall tunnel, a13 instead?
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    So if you need to use it there and back 5 days a week that is a bag of sand in toll fees alone youll pay in a year.

    How do the f*ckwits in charge expect people to make a living in this country.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,851
    tossers, although no great surprise.

    use it near enough every day due to work but am now looking at other ways of crossing the Thames.
    Swimming across?
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    edited May 2012
    blackwall tunnel, a13 instead?
    live in bexleyheath so blackwall is a non starter.

    they know they've got us by the goolies and their attitude is f*** 'em.

    might try this

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  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    I have a dart tag. Works out well cheap and if you live in Dartford you get 50 free journeys a year. Well worth looking into if you use it all the time. Works out at 10p a journey after the 50 free ones.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    This is one of several things that really annoy me - must be getting old and grumpy!

    It is now a "congestion charge", yet when there was a power cut (when the power lines were nicked a while back) and the gates were opened the speed of traffic went up, proving that it's actually a charge which creates congestion.

    This government says it wants us to try hard to get jobs, but where is the incentive for people in Kent to take low-paid jobs in Essex? You'd end up working most of the day just to pay the toll.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,582
    another reason to not go to Essex
    Another reason not to go to Kent!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    Quite reasonable for the essex people.
    Pay 2 quid to come into The Garden and then 2 quid on way home to say thanks.
  • 1se7
    1se7 Posts: 599
    CONGESTION CHARGE HAS GONE UP ......50PENCE more to cause a traffic jam .... great idea......cheers!
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  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    The Garden of England. We should be charging the Essexites £200..
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    The toll undoubtably causes congestion but raises a lot of money. No government - whatever their colour is going pass that up. Rush hour commuters subsidise the railways, Self funders in care homes subsidise council funded ones.... there are lots of examples where things aren't fair, but if there is a way of getting your hard earned, no government will pass it up.
  • Woodsywood
    Woodsywood Posts: 991
    I thought the toll bridge was owned by some French company?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    A Tory increase? Whatever next.
    I believe it was a Labour government that went back on the promise to make it free once the building costs were recouped.

    All politicians are all liers . it's just that the Tory's are more experienced at at!
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    Get a dart tag will save more than the 50p people!
  • UrbanChupacabra
    UrbanChupacabra Posts: 541
    Live in belvedere and work in Romford. Hell of a lot cheaper to get a 3-6 travelcard and that's with a dart tag
  • sbj72
    sbj72 Posts: 12
    As a protest, i will be paying the toll in lots of small change, ie 5p coins, hopefully everyone will do the same and this will cause more delays whilst they count all the coins. About time the people that use it stand up and dont take this crap, i use the bridge occasionly and this is just a pi*s take now, it was meant to be free years ago!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    All Governments think we are idiots ------ they only give a rats arse every five years. They are in fact correct as we always fall for the big two shit bags.

    oooooooooooooooo we are going to have a vote on the EU ----------------not really been conned by both sides on that promise, but some will buy that yet again.

    Labour never told a lie in 13 years-----------i give you "2.5 million British jobs for British workers" except it wasnt legal---wasnt said and didnt happen 78% went to non Brits. Still couldnt have been a Labourtwat that said that could it. Weapons of mas bullshit anyone ?deregulation? no mass immigration ? nope you can trust the Labour Party.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    During the consultation they talked about congestion charging, but in a previous consultation they stated the toll booths were the cause of the congestion. All a pile of shite.
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    All Governments think we are idiots ------ they only give a rats arse every five years. They are in fact correct as we always fall for the big two shit bags.

    oooooooooooooooo we are going to have a vote on the EU ----------------not really been conned by both sides on that promise, but some will buy that yet again.

    Labour never told a lie in 13 years-----------i give you "2.5 million British jobs for British workers" except it wasnt legal---wasnt said and didnt happen 78% went to non Brits. Still couldnt have been a Labourtwat that said that could it. Weapons of mas bullshit anyone ?deregulation? no mass immigration ? nope you can trust the Labour Party.
    And you can trust the Tories???

    The reality is that the one thing you can be sure of every five years - the majority of us will be shafted whoever is in power.

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