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Britcon completes £5.5 million Humber Bridge toll project

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire based civil engineering firm Britcon has completed works a new £5.5 million new state-of-the-art toll collection facility on the Humber Bridge,

The improvements will allow drivers to cross via electronic payment and reducing disruption to millions of users each year.

Britcon undertook full infrastructure works for the project on behalf of Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas (SICE), a world leading specialist consulting with the Humber Bridge Board on intelligent transport and environmental control systems.

SICE is now progressing installation of the electronics and expects to complete the entire project by Summer 2015.

Paul Clarkson, managing director at Britcon said, “The existing toll collection system was installed in 1981 and as such the technology was becoming obsolete and high maintenance.

“The new and innovative collection system includes one of the first open-road tolling arrangements to be installed in the UK, where vehicles do not need to stop while driving through the toll plaza.

“They are billed through electronic methods via tags tied to a Humber Bridge toll account.”

Britcon was contracted to manage the decommissioning of the existing toll provision, supply and install a temporary toll system during the construction process and design and construct the new facility in its entirety.

This included major alterations to the existing highway and open road toll lanes, construction of the toll plaza housing structures and collection system equipment.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .