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Toll Collecting on Forth Bridge

12th January 1962
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TRAFFIC control equipment for the new Forth road bridge will provide fast, effective control of traffic and collection of tolls; planning is well advanced and will involve a toll booth system at the approach to the bridge, recording the class of vehicle and the amount paid; the vehicle owner will be able to watch the recording of the sum paid, to ensure accuracy and avoid any suggestion of pilfering, while each payment will be automatically recorded. When the payment has been made, and the amount and type of vehicle recorded, a green light will give the vehicle • the signal to proceed. A further f will be the signalling of the N. classification so that an inspecto check the type from a distance.

In the administrative building atl to the toll collection layout, a s line of equipment will be installed t the administrators a complete picti the traffic pattern. In this way thi of traffic will be continuously rec. There will be traffic signals at eac of the bridge and a police patrol o ing throughout the length.

A census of over the Kine bridge was made the "peak of wi period from Iant.t to 7; this will b ordinated with the taken in August, to provide a su and winter pictut potential traffic, to in assessing the rei toll charge. The already suggested the region of 5s. Pc:

B.U.T. CHANGE ADDRESS

THE address of 1 United Tr Ltd., has been ch to 49 Berkeley S London, W.1. Tin phone number, ( venor 7121, will r unchanged.

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