This is my first rant in quite some time and its not going to be a fun one. I am genuinely pissed off. The Severn Bridge have seen fit to pander to the idiots who can’t be bothered to make sure they have cash on them before they travel.
Since time began the Severn Bridge has required payment to cross (may require citation) and still fuckwits turn up with no cash, not enough cash, the wrong currency, whatever and expect to get across.
So in an attempt to get more money (I guess), the bridge owners in their wisdom have introduced card payment machines… to every sodding booth! So because its available it seems that suddenly 70% (not an accurate estimation) of people crossing the bridge now use cards to pay. This takes ages and causes me (and other cash carrying geniuses) to have an even longer wait to get on with our journeys than ever before.
Between incorrect PIN entries, dirty chips, general failures, stolen cards whatever, the average time for each car to get through now seems to be around 30 seconds or more. Probably more. I should time it, but that would take time.
I humbly suggest that a couple of “fuckwit lanes” be opened, down at the slow-lane side of the bridge where all the assholes who want to pay by card can queue together creating a line of knob heads that reaches Bristol. The rest of us can continue our journeys efficiently.
Alternatives that I’d approve of could include a “fuckwit tax” so card payments could be £10 per crossing rather than £6 – maybe this way we (the intelligent cash carriers) won’t have to suffer the annual price increases as the fuckwits can subsidise us, or at the very least maybe only allow contact-less payments? That at least is quick and suitable for purpose.
Now more than ever I think I should get that Severn Bridge Tag – I can join the smug few that drive on through, merely slowing down and very rarely stopping as they pass by the fuckwits and cash-carrying plebs.
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