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Post by Hannibal on Apr 4, 2018 14:58:12 GMT
I've just been online to try to register my car for this £2 crossing charge and it's impossible without pre-paying a £35 charge (£5 registration and £30 presumably for 15 crossings). God knows how anyone (elderly) manages that are not even basic computer literate as I am.
I'm registered with Dartford Crossing and whenever we play down that way (Dover) the £2 charge just automatically comes out of my account.
I'm going to have to find a way of travelling to St Helens without using this new bridge.
Btw you cannot pay on the day as there are no toll booths. Anyone used it yet?
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Post by Malcolm Tucker on Apr 4, 2018 15:30:02 GMT
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Post by marner93 on Apr 4, 2018 15:31:10 GMT
I paid it off fine online, just one simple payment after I entered my cars details.
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Post by chislenko on Apr 4, 2018 22:46:25 GMT
I joined it (the £35 you are referring to) as we go to Speke Airport a few times a year. If you apply for what they call a "sticker account" you get 30p off each crossing. Each crossing deducts from your original £30 and you can top up your account on line. Just appeared to me to be a lot easier than messing about trying to pay by phone for each crossing.
However I get what you are saying about the Dartford Crossing where you register and then it charges your card. I suppose the problem with that system may be expired cards, people not changing card details if they change card provider etc.
Oh and by the way, I am elderly!!
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Post by Neil Fishers Biggest Fan on Apr 10, 2018 12:24:49 GMT
One thing we have discovered about the new bridge, coming back, once you get to end of the bridge there is a distinct lack of “Chester/North Wales signs!
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Post by Hannibal on Apr 13, 2018 15:09:31 GMT
I went to St Helens last Friday travelling up the M6 to avoid this bridge. I should have come off at the M62 but missed the 21a exit. I eventually got to my destination but must have done 65-70 miles instead of 40. We went into Liverpool later and I decided to come home via the Birkenhead Tunnel. I set my navigation, but eventually realised that I was travelling towards Widnes. I did the journey over the new bridge and paid on the phone just using the keypad on Saturday morning. It was easy enough, but the whole day was very stressful. I later phoned Merseyflow and asked that now they had my details could I just be charged whenever I cross and they said no, I had to pay separately every time. It's the same company that operates Dartford Crossing but not as simple, as I believe that if I make a Dartford Crossing now it will just be charged automatically. As we're now in the Conference North that's unlikely for a while.
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Post by chislenko on May 13, 2018 7:55:48 GMT
One thing we have discovered about the new bridge, coming back, once you get to end of the bridge there is a distinct lack of “Chester/North Wales signs! Came back from Speke Airport the other night and would agree with you regarding the signage. We just kept following M56 signs and eventually Chester came up on a sign. With regard to cost even though they said £1.70 with a sticker account they deducted £1.80 from our account!! |
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Post by blueforever on Dec 3, 2018 16:06:08 GMT
Mersey Flow is a farce i know several people who have had a fixed penalty to pay a fine and not payed just contest it even go to a tribunal you will win its an illigal racket i nobody has been fined they will just write it off and they have not summonsed anyone to court.
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Post by Hannibal on Dec 6, 2018 12:50:30 GMT
Mersey Flow is a farce i know several people who have had a fixed penalty to pay a fine and not payed just contest it even go to a tribunal you will win its an illigal racket i nobody has been fined they will just write it off and they have not summonsed anyone to court. What is illegal about it? |
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