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Lewis could you email me/phone me please, because I am an assistant producer at BBC Radio 4 You&Yours and we are planning to do a piece on toll roads and gated communities within the UK. I have a reporter currently working on this story and I wondering if you could give me some more info as to why this road is a toll road?


my telephone number is 02077650076, or email at [email protected]


Sarah

Why has it historically been a toll road, or why do the College continue to maintain the toll?


If the latter, I'm pretty sure the College website makes clear it's to limit the amount of traffic using the road and to ensure the road's upkeep. People who live on the Dulwich Estate are entitled to two free tollgate passes (providing they pay their service charges) as well, I believe - not sure if it's all people or just some roads.

It used to be 50p, but then it went up to a quid. That's really grabby and damaging to the Dulwich Estate's reputation. A pound is not a lot of money, but for there to be such a brazen rise of 100% shows contempt for the users of the 'service'. Nero

I assume that the Estate is allowed to charge a toll on the road due to some ancient feudal bylaw. (Before it went to 50p, I'm sure the toll was only 20p.)


Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> Could please it not be one of those interminable

> "Why is everything so terrible?" Y&Y pieces?

> Sometimes it is the most dispiriting programme on

> the planet.


Surely that's Quote, Unquote? (Or perhaps Moneybox?)

Dulwich Estates use the toll as a form of traffic congestion control* NOT as a revenue earner. Having said that the M6 toll works out at 16.7p per mile versus College Rd at ?1 for the 1 mile section. That's 6 times more expensive for a road that's in a pretty sorry state. However, the toll also goes towards the upkeep of many of the private roads on the Estate, so that's OK then.

It's my understanding it's a private road and therefore the public have no right of way, Dulwich Estates charges people for the privalige of using it.

I believe if they did not charge, after a few years of drivers using it unrestricted, it would lose it private status and become a public right of way.

I've not used the road for years (since they started charging again). If the road is that bad why do people still use it?

A word of warning! If you have an accident on College road your insurance company will not pay out, as it is private property. This happened to a friend of my some years ago (another reason I don't use it).

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