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Humber Bridge
Humber Bridge
View from about 2,000 ft (610 m)
Carries Motor vehicles (on the A15), pedestrians and cyclists Crosses Humber
Locale East Riding of Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire Maintained by The Humber Bridge Board
Design Suspension Total length 2,220 m (7,283 ft) Longest span 1,410 m (4,626 ft) (fifth-largest in the world)
Opened To traffic on 24 June 1981 Officially on 17 July 1981
Toll
Car: £3.00 HGV: £20.30 Motorcycle: £1.30 (This is due to be cut to £1.50 for cars and motorcycles go free as of 1st April 2012) Daily traffic 120,000 vehicles per week
Location within United Kingdom
Coordinates 53.7114°N 0.4485°W
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2,220 m (7,283 ft) single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981. It is the fifth-largest of its type in the world. It spans the Humber (the estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse) between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire – both of which were previously in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside.
As of 2006, the bridge carried an average of 120,000
vehicles per week. [1] The toll is £3.00 each way for cars (higher for commercial vehicles), which makes it the most expensive toll crossing in the United
Kingdom. [2] As of 1 April 2012, the toll will be reduced to £1.50 each way after the UK government
cut £150m from the bridge's current debt
Humber Bridge
View from about 2,000 ft (610 m)
Carries Motor vehicles (on the A15), pedestrians and cyclists Crosses Humber
Locale East Riding of Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire Maintained by The Humber Bridge Board
Design Suspension Total length 2,220 m (7,283 ft) Longest span 1,410 m (4,626 ft) (fifth-largest in the world)
Opened To traffic on 24 June 1981 Officially on 17 July 1981
Toll
Car: £3.00 HGV: £20.30 Motorcycle: £1.30 (This is due to be cut to £1.50 for cars and motorcycles go free as of 1st April 2012) Daily traffic 120,000 vehicles per week
Location within United Kingdom
Coordinates 53.7114°N 0.4485°W
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2,220 m (7,283 ft) single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981. It is the fifth-largest of its type in the world. It spans the Humber (the estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse) between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire – both of which were previously in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside.
As of 2006, the bridge carried an average of 120,000
vehicles per week. [1] The toll is £3.00 each way for cars (higher for commercial vehicles), which makes it the most expensive toll crossing in the United
Kingdom. [2] As of 1 April 2012, the toll will be reduced to £1.50 each way after the UK government
cut £150m from the bridge's current debt
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