Mersey Tunnel users are encouraged to apply for a Fast Tag to take advantage of the further toll reduction they will see from next Friday (1st April).



Car drivers with a Fast Tag already benefit from a 30 pence reduction on the cash toll and this will increase to a 50 pence discount from next week, with them paying £1.20 a trip as against the cash toll of £1.70. Proportionate discounts of nearly 30 per cent will also apply to Fast Tag users of all other vehicles.

Fast Tags are available to everyone, not just regular travellers, and are issued free of charge. They offer ‘stored value’ meaning that customers’ money stays in their Fast Tag account until it is used, no matter how long that is.

The cash tolls for all vehicles will remain frozen for 2016/17 -- a decision agreed by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (CA) in February following recommendations by a task group set up at the request of the CA to review the tunnel tolls.

It was also approved that all liveried emergency services vehicles, not just those on emergency call outs, can travel free through the Mersey tunnels from 1st April and furthermore there will now be free travel on Christmas Day for all tunnel users.

Said Councillor Phil Davies, Leader of Wirral Council:

"We have made good on our pledge to reduce Tunnel Tolls. Wirral residents who use the Fast Tag option for commuting to work can save a fiver a week, and even casual tunnel users could save a pound per round trip by switching to the Fast Tag option"


Said Cllr Liam Robinson, Chair of Merseytravel:
“The savings from the Fast Tag are too good not to take advantage of and they are available for everyone. From April, a car driver making two trips each weekday through the tunnel will now save £5 per week compared with paying the cash toll.
“Discounts for Fast Tags apply to all vehicle classes, so drivers of class 4 heavy goods vehicles such as articulated lorries will now be saving £2 each time they travel. This is about doing what we can as a City Region to help regular and local users.”

What they don't advertise is that anyone with a blue badge is entitled to a free tunnel tag!

[QUOTE=Steve_728;6486655]What they don't advertise is that anyone with a blue badge is entitled to a free tunnel tag![/QUOT

I don't think the above comment is correct. Whilst transporting a friend to Clatterbridge Oncology Centre, and having a Blue Badge we had to apply for a fast tag, and identification card to access the tunnel free.

Remember, a few months ago on the Toll Road, a car thought he was being clever and jumped the long queues not realising it was the Fast Tag lane.
He was stuck with nowhere to go and many very angry cars right up behind him.