Humber Bridge traffic up by nearly 10 per cent after tolls cut
Traffic crossing the Humber Bridge increased by 9.2 per cent during 2012 after tolls were reduced on the crossing last April.
New figures for the eight-month period since the historic toll reduction came into force show an extra 428,515 vehicles crossed the bridge compared to the same period in 2011.
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Humber Bridge tolls were reduced in April.
The biggest rise was in car journeys which showed a 10.3 per cent increase. There was also a 9.6 per cent increase in heavy lorries using the bridge.
However, there were 32,457 fewer crossings by small vans.
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Comments
by currensy
Friday, January 04 2013, 1:57PM
“**** the debt my pops said they was suppose to be building a motorway from newcastle to london via humber bridge way back when it was built i dont see no motorway so why should we be left to pay it. Also there is tunnels all over london that have cost more then the humber bridge and the full uk public have to pay for those so why shouldnt the rest of the country pay for our debts. I say scrap the tolls and build the motorway like they was going to they would down south but hey we aint down south.”
by mikeinhull
Friday, January 04 2013, 1:07PM
“9.2% should pay off the debt or maybe in 100 years”
by Kirke
Friday, January 04 2013, 12:31PM
“David_Nivea, why should we care as to whether or not its generating revenue?
I think us users have contributed more than enough before the tolls were reduced. They should be scrapped completely!”
by David_Nivea
Friday, January 04 2013, 12:09PM
“If the toll is reduiced by 50%, aren't at least twice as many journeys required to take the same amount?
The bridge has been and always will be a gigantic white elephant, more of a white mammoth, as there is simply not the amount of traffic to make it viable.
Of course, no one ever mentions that its construction was promised to sway the 1966 by-election in favour of Labour: ideology over reality as usual, even then, from the free-spending [with other peoples money] millionaire socialists.”
by Dave_Navarro
Friday, January 04 2013, 12:02PM
“Good.”
by PatrickNewman
Friday, January 04 2013, 11:19AM
“Overall was income down. Were the reductions to increase income or to boost economic activity or both?”
by LordChez
Friday, January 04 2013, 10:36AM
“9.2% is not nearly 10% as it is closer to 9%!”