Written evidence from Keith Wright
You have to pay still to go under the Mersey
from Birkenhead to Liverpool. I would bet that this charge was
just to pay for the construction initially. Provided the cost
is "reasonable" then continued charges to pay for maintenance
would seem sensible. I would suggest that £2 for a car and
£5 for a lorry would be acceptable. The Mersey Tunnel accepts
money thrown into a basket, so is not very labour intensive. It
might be worth looking at what goes for those of us who live at
the Northern end of the principality in determining a final decision
on charges for those who travel to England from the South and
back.
July 2010
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