severn bridge concesions?

Coveredinbees!!!!

Bristol to Cardiff is 80 mile round trip every day as well that's got to cost £50 a week in petrol as well, wouldn't it be easier to get a job in bristol

katee_3

I especially like the folding bike scenario! I'd love to get a job in Bristol, I've been enjoying walking to work since January and not driving anywhere, but needs must - silly business I'm in...
Thanks for all the suggestions

kateeee

azjh77

...or move to Wales. Lot cheaper to live there than here in Bristol!

tripled

You could always cross the severn in Gloucester on the way each day... I worked out it would save me around £1 for the extra 45 minutes on the trip after taking the extra diesel into account

lisa76

god going the gloucester route every day would be a nightmare! i go that way if i'm in stroud, but i wouldn't detour from bristol to do it!

i would def think about asking at the interview for some kind of contribution - if they want you bad enough they may just surprise you!

good luck!

thecraftyleek

I used to live in Chepstow, right next to the old Severn bridge.

You can use a motorbike for free. No charge for these. Or, if you are going from Aust/Chepstow, you can cycle along the old bridge (takes about 1 hour), but not good on wet days.

If you live in Wales and work in Cribbs Causeway, outside Bristol, it may be worth parking your car somewhere free on the street in Bulwark/Thornwell and catching the bus. It leaves from outside Thornwell Primary School about every hour. The fare is cheap, and saves you parking in Cribbs and the bridge fare.

The idea of the Severn Bridge Toll is morally and ethically wrong anyway. Britons pay far higher road tax than anywhere in the rest of Europe - and aprt from Holland, the highest gas prices - yet we have to pay privately owned FRENCH company for the privilige of travelling within ONE country (England and Wales in the UK). While on the continent, you can happily cross from France to Belgium, to Germany, without any charge at all. Is this for real?

The Severn Bridge Company also does not take credit cards or Euros, so you are stuffed if you are Billy Tourist looking for a warm welcome into Wales. And to add insult to injury, if you complain about the high prices to any of the YTS attendants who work on the booths there, they phone the cops up and send them around your house saying you have "verbally abused" them.

How about different prices for different times of day? Why should I pay the same as some business executive whose company pays his tolls for him anyway? Or maybe the government should reopen the old railway crossing from Pilton (near Lydney) further up the Severn, that was destroyed by a ship around 1960. This was a major crossing only a few years before the first bridge was constructed. It may get more cars off the road.

ABOLISH THE SEVERN BRIDGE TOLL TOLLS! YOU PAY ENOUGH ROAD TAX ALREADY!