Motoists have gone online to vent their frustrations on the first day of new tolls on the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry.
The price to cross the River Tamar has gone up today from £1.50 to £2 for cars if you pay in cash, or from 75 pence to £1 for Tag customers.
Many drivers reflecting on the day of the increase have complained about the construction of new offices at the Tamar Bridge, the lack of a card payment option at the toll booths, the fact that there is no Tag payment option for motorcyclists, and to express the opinion that the crossing should be subsidised by the government.
In a statement issued last week, the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry joint committee said that the rise was the first increase in tolls for nine years, and that the Department for Transport had judged it ‘necessary and proportionate’.
The committee said that the Bridge and Ferry are completely self financing and that the crossings had been running at a loss for nearly two years, eating into the reserves.