If you live in the UK and use the Dartford Crossing, remember to pay your toll online

@AmberL I have done that now lol cause I know it'll happen again. I even wrote not to forget on my sticky notes. There must be so many others like me.🤦

@AmberL Why should anyone need a so-called account just to pay to drive across a bridge? Especially if for a one-off journey, not regular commuting.

How do you pay if you have no Internet link, or simply do not want an "account" with whoever owns the bridgel ?

(Not everyone is "on-line", though large companies now employ gadget-freaks who cannot understand that.)

What's wrong with a simple card-reader at the entrance, if they don't have that already?.

If it were me, very unlikely to use the crossing again, I'd be strongly tempted to find their postal address, and send a cheque to that. If they object what can they do? I will have sent the money they demand so the onus is on them to bank it!

@ArishMell they got rid of the toll booths some years back to reduce the queues. Now the charges are acknowledged as a means to actually reduce demand.

But it's increased recently because of the new charges at the Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels being higher at peak times.

But we'll hopefully finally now get the lower crossing which will be nearer me but we've spent quarter of a billion in it so far to just produce paper 🤦🏼‍♂

@OldBrit It had not occurred to"them" that deterring motorists from one route will only increase congestion on another?

That doesn't surprise me, spending a fortune just to produce paper. Where does it all go? I expect only a fraction of that is on physical surveys and plans, with hangers-on like legal "advisors" (over-paid planning-law solicitors), taking more than their fair share of the rest.