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Alastair McNeill

Scots motorist fuming after receiving fines for driving through city tunnel at centre of controversial toll scheme

A Stirling motorist has been left fuming after being hit with fines for driving through a tunnel at the centre of a controversial toll scheme.

Helen Law, of Port Street, had been in Newcastle last May for work but later discovered that she had fallen foul of a new payment system at the Tyne Tunnel.

Operator TT2 Limited removed toll gates and introduced ‘open road tolling’ in November 2021, as a means of reducing congestion and reducing travel times under the River Tyne.

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