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Roland Perry · October 8th 12, 12:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.rec.driving

In message , at 10:29:33 on Mon, 8 Oct
2012, d remarked:
I like the idea of that. Let the mugs pay and the rest of us drive over
the bridge that was paid for by tolls in 2003 after which Lying Labour said
the tolls would be removed. Naturally, being a cash cow they weren't.
And the tunnel was paid for by central government as per the rest of the road
system and should never have had tolls in the first place.

Going back 40 years to the original single-bore tunnel (funded jointly
by Kent and Essex CC), the tolls on that were supposed to stop as soon
as it had been paid for. At the time, however, they claimed the tolls
weren't even paying the interest on the capital.
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Roland Perry