Off Topic Humber Bridge

[Sikkedogsvendestykke]

what a silly response.

not everyone automatically assimilates the implementation of new machinery by telepathic means.

Then you will applaud my intervention on your behalf. And that I object about telepathy. This isn't telepathic. It is telegraphic.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

The way you cross the Humber Bridge is changing. By early November, you'll be able to pay your tolls automatically. The middle lanes wont have any booths and will be for HumberTAG holders only - so you'll be able to drive across the bridge and automatically pay your toll without stopping.

All you'll need is a special electronic HumberTAG, which will be linked to your online account. Our new system will detect your tag and deduct the toll from your account.

The outside lanes will still have booths. Your HumberTAG will get you through the booths faster or you can still pay cash.

You can apply for a HumberTAG now just download the [ application form ] and the [ T&Cs ], read the T&Cs, fill in the form, and post it back to us along with your payment. Well be sending out your HumberTAG, along with detailed fitting instructions around mid-October, in plenty of time for when the system goes live.

Instead of paying £1.50 for a car going over the bridge, if you have vehicle tagged it will cost £1.35.

For info click this link: http://www.humberbridge.co.uk/toll_information/humbertag.php

Surely its the inside lanes that have booths!!!
I use it daily. There's one tidy looking toll booth operator. Dave I think his name is.

 

[x]

Then you will applaud my intervention on your behalf. And that I object about telepathy. This isn't telepathic. It is telegraphic.

i don't applaud it. it makes no sense.

the first post said " we have new machines on the bridge"

your post said " why are you telling people about the new machines? other places have had those machines for years"

it is not relevant that the machines have existed for years.

it is relevant that some of us may soon encounter them for the first time. this is the purpose of the first post, not to say "look, someone has invented a new machine!"

try learning about logic one day. you might even like it.

 

[BrAdY]

Surely its the inside lanes that have booths!!!
I use it daily. There's one tidy looking toll booth operator. Dave I think his name is.

you south side of the bridge traitor

we all view you differently.

 

[AlRawdah]

Then read the thread. Why on Earth has it taken this long to adopt payment technology on the Humber Bridge that reduces traveling costs and makes it easier to get across? We've known this for ages.

Because they haven't previously invested in the technology - perhaps there wasn't a need (the bridge is hardly rammed with traffic) or perhaps they couldn't afford it (the bridge board is notoriously potless). Does that help clarify for you?

 

[Happy Tiger]

That houses south of the Humber might right now be cheaper than north is pretty much irrelevant. You do not address my point. Why has it taken this long to introduce technology and cheaper prices? Humberside compares to Lombardia, and I include that ****hole Genoa. Try Googling Genoa and thereafter walking about the place.

What a load of tripe. Nelson knew Genoa was a load of tripe, and that the English were tripe. Just ask; I'll give you reference after reference after reference. How we won at Trafalgar is a mystery.

Nelson won at Trafalgar because he wasn't surround by patronising ****s with a propensity for using long words in a futile attempt to appear superior.

 

[spesupersydera]

Nelson won at Trafalgar because he wasn't surround by patronising ****s with a propensity for using long words in a futile attempt to appear superior.

Doffs cap - a harsh, but fair, put-down sir.

 

[Plum]

That houses south of the Humber might right now be cheaper than north is pretty much irrelevant. You do not address my point. Why has it taken this long to introduce technology and cheaper prices? Humberside compares to Lombardia, and I include that ****hole Genoa. Try Googling Genoa and thereafter walking about the place.

What a load of tripe. Nelson knew Genoa was a load of tripe, and that the English were tripe. Just ask; I'll give you reference after reference after reference. How we won at Trafalgar is a mystery.

I rather like Genoa.

 

[Des Head]

Surely its the inside lanes that have booths!!!

They tend to have the booths on the side of the driver.

 

[ElTigre]

Nelson won at Trafalgar because he wasn't surround by patronising ****s with a propensity for using long words in a futile attempt to appear superior.

Yes Kiss me Hardy was straight to the point. We'll gloss over that Nelson was gay.

 

[Happy Tiger]

Yes Kiss me Hardy was straight to the point. We'll gloss over that Nelson was gay.

Was he? Does it matter? Point is we were the best, and we won.

 

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lots of people drive south each morning to work at 6am .. I'm one of them .. its a godsend

 

[Looe Tiger]

I live in looe and cross the tamar bridge with a tamar tag
Tag holders pay 75p cash is 1.50 so why only 15p cheaper on Humber bridge ?

 

[Frodsham Tiger]

I doubt many on here will know of the Warburton Bridge over this way but it has to be the most ludicrous toll road in the country. At rush hour, there are often 20 minute delays queuing for this single lane Toll Bridge because it is all paid in cash by hand. If the M6 is jammed for whatever reason, then the Bridge becomes the alternative escape route and can often cause the whole road network around it, between Trafford and Warrington to clog up. No chance of it ever being automated either.

The charge is 12p.

 

[balkan tiger]

Is the toll bridge in Selby still there? It was 5p to cross if i remember well.

 

[spesupersydera]

Dunham Bridge on the A57 (Notts/Lincs border) is 40p for cars.

 

[matelot-tiger]

Did you step ashore? I did, and I'd delight debating with you. Go ahead.

To experience cultures you need to step ashore, thought that would be common sense. Oh hang on, you seem to be a little short in the supply of that gift!

 

[C'mon ref]

Having watched this structure built from the word go then getting stuck on the thing for an hour as it opened to the public for the first time as I crossed from Hessle to Barton, I have never failed to be amazed by the bridge's beauty. It could be even better if lit up properly and I'm still surprised at the amount of traffic that crosses this bridge apparantly going from nowhere to nowhere, a phrase often stated by those who scorned the project from the off and branded it a white elephant.

 

[DocTigris]

I doubt many on here will know of the Warburton Bridge over this way but it has to be the most ludicrous toll road in the country. At rush hour, there are often 20 minute delays queuing for this single lane Toll Bridge because it is all paid in cash by hand. If the M6 is jammed for whatever reason, then the Bridge becomes the alternative escape route and can often cause the whole road network around it, between Trafford and Warrington to clog up. No chance of it ever being automated either.

The charge is 12p.

I once arrived without change. Gave the chap a fiver. He looked at me like it was a wind up. He took his time counting out my change in a mixture of 10 pence pieces and pennies just to ensure I learnt the lesson. Didn't seem the sort of person to start a "but it's legal tender" discussion with.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Having watched this structure built from the word go then getting stuck on the thing for an hour as it opened to the public for the first time as I crossed from Hessle to Barton, I have never failed to be amazed by the bridge's beauty. It could be even better if lit up properly and I'm still surprised at the amount of traffic that crosses this bridge apparantly going from nowhere to nowhere, a phrase often stated by those who scorned the project from the off and branded it a white elephant.

Agree about lighting it up.
I'd like to see suicide barriers installed too. Far too many people are taking their lives jumping off it.