At todays Merseytravel budget meeting I was delighted to support officers recommendations that there should be NO increase on Payable Mersey Tunnel Tolls for the coming municipal year, however because of the Tunnels Act 2004 we have no control over the Authorised Tolls which have risen again this year! I am keen that those regular users who [...]
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Good News and Bad!
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Liverpool, Mersey Tunnel Tolls, Merseytravel, Wirral on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mersey Tunnel Tolls
Posted in Media, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Wirral on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier today I attended a Merseytravel Committee which had a report about Mersey tunnel tolls. The report was for information and it appeared that the Chairman of the committee was reluctant to allow any discussion as it will be the budget meeting of the Authority on 9th February that will determine what the payable [...]
Mersey Tunnel ‘Authorised’ Tolls Will Increase in April 2012
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Queensway, Wirral on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As readers of the blog and the wider community will be aware the Mersey Tunnels Act 2004, pushed through by New Labour allows ’Authorised Tolls’ to rise based on RPI figures each year. The Authorised Toll is the amount that Merseytravel are allowed to charge, unless of course they discount them. Currently discounts apply on each [...]
Mersey Tunnels CCTV
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Birkehead, Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Wallasey on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently a few people have asked my why CCTV has been installed at all the Toll Booths at the tunnel entrance. The answer as provided by Merseytravel to someone who submitted an FOI is appended below. I trust that answers the question? But if anyone wants any more info then let me know…
Tunnel Tolls Increased by Labour
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Wirral on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite appeals by the small businesses, tunnels users, me, Mersey Tunnels Users Association, the CBI, MP’s both Labour and Conservatives, and many many others, Labour-led Merseytravel has forced through a rise in tunnel tolls. As the Conservative Group Leader on Merseytravel I moved an amendment calling for a freeze on payable tolls and a reduction of 10p [...]
Taxi for Merseytravel!
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Neil Scales, Tolls, Tunnel Users Association, Wirral on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
That will be £183.80 – Yeh, but who is paying for it? Readers of the blog will be aware of the Mersey Tunnels report which I blogged about yesterday. In that posting I talked about the report being delayed. Today I have discovered that the cost of getting that late report to the Members of [...]
Merseytravel Budget Meeting – Tunnel Tolls to Rise?
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Tunnel Tolls, Wirral on January 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On Thursday this week 3rd February, the Merseyside Integrated Transport Authority (MITA) has its annual budget meeting. As part of that meeting there is a separate report on the Mersey Tunnel Tolls, and the papers always come out at the same time, however this year the Tunnels report was delayed, I am told because the [...]
4th February, 2010
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, tagged Birkenhead, Cllr Ian Lewis, Cllr Leah Fraser, Kingsway, Liverpool, Merseytravel, Queensway, Tunnel Tolls, Wallasey on January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I spent a couple of hours this morning with my Conservative colleagues on Merseytravel, Cllr Ian Lewis and Cllr Bob Roberts, where we met with Jim Barclay, Merseytravels Director of Resources, to look at his proposed budget figures for 2010/11. High on our agenda was the situation regarding Mersey Tunnel Tolls. We were delighted that he [...]
