An item on BBC Breakfast highlighted the high cost of tolls on the Humber Bridge, which have gone up from £2.70 to £3. The Humber bridge is over a mile long, (6,300 feet), and the distance to ‘go around’ some 50 miles plus. Sandbanks Chain Ferry on the other hand is £3.50 for 1,060 feet with a go around of circa 35 miles and the ferry itself is some 200 feet so only has to travel 800 feet. Seems like a rip off to me or is the toll fee based on Sandbanks earnings not Purbeck's ?
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 15/6/11 3:04 PM
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well at 88p each if there are four in your car it seems a bargain
Buy a book of tickets:
10 tickets for £27
50 tickets for £130
100 tickets for £240
Whinge dismissed!
I have tried to explain this to some before take into account fuel. mileage ( servicing, more miles means lees car value) tyres time etc the ferry offers fair value. Tell you what you go via the road the rest of us will go via the ferry. ( my partner used it over 2000 times in 5 yrs and I use it very regulaly so i do know what im on about. enjoy the road trip.
Or get a bike and pedal across the ferry works out cheaper aswell and is one less tin-coffin on the road:) Plus will keep ya fit.
And what a scenic treat - better than the humber?
I think going the road way is a nicer drive :-D
Eventually though the ferry will stop being cheaper/better value than the drive around if petrol keeps increasing.
It seems that all these commentators work for the ferry company. While it is cheaper and much more pleasant than the drive around, I heard that Sandbanks ferry is the most expensive toll (pro rata per metre) in Europe. Can anyone confirm this? And shouldn't/aren't fares regulated by government, or just at the whim of the company?
The cheapest and safest way to travel is ferry.
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