East Yorkshire traffic up on Humber Bridge but revenue is down
Traffic has increased by nine per cent since the Humber Bridge tolls were reduced in April, but revenue is down nearly 40 per cent.
Tolls for cars has been halved to £1.50 while charges for motorcycles have been scrapped completely. Lorry drivers are also enjoying a reduction – the toll is now £12 instead of £18.
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The Humber Bridge
Business leaders hoped the move would boost the Humber region's economy. The new charges were brought in after the Government agreed to write off £150 million of the outstanding debt.
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Latest figures released by the Humber Bridge Board show a total of £5,777,767 has been generated compared to £8,768,938 during the same period last year.
However, the number of vehicles using the bridge has increased from 3,823,028 last year to 4,197,899 in 2012. Traffic crossing the bridge has been consistently higher since the new charges except during the Jubilee bank holiday weekend when traffic was down by more than 6,000.
Comments
by ArthurHunt
Wednesday, December 12 2012, 9:27PM
“Considering the size of the National Debt (thank you very much New Labour!!! - you were once a great party until Blair and his gang of communist traitors in suits took it over) the Humber Bridge debt is peanuts - the government should just write it off. I hardly use the bridge anyway so I have no vested interest in asking for the tolls to be scrapped.”
by CarmellaBrown
Tuesday, December 04 2012, 8:22PM
“well if there is less of a debt to pay then it shouldnot matter if there is less money coming in because they have less to pay”
by SPBlakeney
Tuesday, December 04 2012, 7:30PM
“The da*n thing will prob take longer to pay off than the UKs astronomical debt. How many years now?!”
by dondeckie
Tuesday, December 04 2012, 5:35PM
“Close it down then. It is nothing but a money wasting structure. They should never build them if you have to pay for them forever. People are getting bored hearing about how much it cost to keep it open. HELLO, it is only a road above a river (well estuary).”