Dartford crossing

[g.s.john]

Apparently we are in for six months of delays at the crossing whilst they dismantle the toll booths and install the ANPR kit to start in October this year.
The joys of motoring, ho hum.
One question how are they going to bill the foreign registered vehicles?

 

[Gossy]

Only use it twice a month - is for payment/billing?

 

[Greg Masters]

It'll work like the London Congestion Charge. The Highways Agency reckon they will be chasing £6m of unpaid each year.

 

[Mr K]

The French seem to find toll booths work just fine?

Why do we insist on not employing people?

 

[Greg Masters]

The French seem to find toll booths work just fine?

Why do we insist on not employing people?

The new Dartford system will be run by SANEF - the very same company that operate the Liber-T system on French peages!

 

[Wapping]

The French seem to find toll booths work just fine?

Why do we insist on not employing people?

Because people in booths (and the booths for them to sit in) create fecking great queues. The Daft Ford crossing payment collection system is a dinosaur, unable to cope.

Smart tags and Oystercard (an invention of genius).... It's the future.

 

[Uncle-Fester]

I use a dart tag, but still have to queue behind hundreds of plebs with £20 notes or no money at all

I absolutely resent having to pay to use a road that I already pay road tax for!!!

It's a fucking downright liberty, absolutely outrageous to stop traffic on the country's busiest motorway to take some money off them........

 

[Monsieur]

Makes my 40p toll on Dunham Bridge seem rather palatable.

 

[Greg Masters]

It's a fucking downright liberty, absolutely outrageous to stop traffic on the country's busiest motorway to take some money off them........

Far be it for me to halt your spleen-vent, but it's not actually a motorway.......

Carry on.

 

[Uncle-Fester]

Far be it for me to halt your spleen-vent, but it's not actually a motorway.......

Carry on.

Is it not part of the M25?

And, even if it isn't (technically) then the road tax issue still stands IMHO!

 

[Monsieur]

Is it not part of the M25?

And, even if it isn't (technically) then the road tax issue still stands IMHO!

Road tax?
My mate's car is zero RFL - can he not use the crossing then?

 

[Mr K]

Because people in booths (and the booths for them to sit in) create fecking great queues. The Daft Ford crossing payment collection system is a dinosaur, unable to cope.

Smart tags and Oystercard (an invention of genius).... It's the future.

So what of the original question re: Johnny Foreigner?

 

[Greg Masters]

So what of the original question re: Johnny Foreigner?

At the moment they accept Euro notes and give some UK coinage as change. Feck knows what will happen in the future .........

 

[Greg Masters]

Is it not part of the M25?

The Dartford Crossing is the A282 - non-motorway status so that learner drivers and others that can't use a motorway can actually get across the Thames.

Even though you're not allowed to take a bicycle across the bridge or in the tunnel, if you pitch up at the booth, the authorities will 'arrange your crossing' free of charge.

 

[Wapping]

So what of the original question re: Johnny Foreigner?

As with the Congestion Charge within London, foreign registered vehicles will escape billing. This is no different to British motorists avoiding speeding tickets when flashed by speed cameras overseas. Likewise parking tickets.

 

[widget]

This is no different to British motorists avoiding speeding tickets when flashed by speed cameras overseas. .

Don't you just love forwards facing cameras.....apparently......

 

[er-minio]

As with the Congestion Charge within London, foreign registered vehicles will escape billing.

Not 100%. I know for sure that (most) Italian cars who don't pay the CC get fined, in Italy, from Transport for London through a debt collecting agency.
A person I know always assumed to get through for free only to, rightly so, fork out several hundred euros when back home.

 

[STUBBS]

cant we staff the booths with immigrants on minimal wage

 

[Greg Masters]

Now delayed until end-November

 

[bikemad]

As with the Congestion Charge within London, foreign registered vehicles will escape billing. This is no different to British motorists avoiding speeding tickets when flashed by speed cameras overseas. Likewise parking tickets.

People could just get foreign plates then just get away with it changing them somewhere quiet few miles up the road