Tyne Tunnel barriers are set to vanish in 2021 - this is what will replace them
Toll booths and barriers at the Tyne Tunnel should be gone in just over a year’s time – with plans approved for a radical overhaul of the crossing.
Transport bosses are pushing ahead with a revolutionary project to put an end to drivers reaching out of car windows with a handful of coins to access the tunnels.
A new system, which it is hoped can be up and running between October and December 2021, would be completely barrier-free and work using Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras only.
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