Soldato
Why?
Im not sure what the confusion is, signs EVERYWHERE telling you how to pay etc, dunno how people miss it (not just the OP).
Yes they might put up signs everywhere about it, but it doesn't mean it is fair, because both we and the Government know that people WILL always forget to pay, for no reason other than we're human beings and occasionally forget to do things. This plays rather nicely into the Government's hands - or should I say, pockets. Current figures are that 1 in 7 people are forgetting to do it.
Penalising someone £72.50 for forgetting to pay a rather overpriced £2.50 to use the Dartford toll is, IMO, another shot at motorists.
The Government may harp on about how it's going to reduce congestion, but even the project leader for the freeflow project says it is only a short term fix. Out of sheer coincidence (ha) it just so happens to be a short term fix that it likely to bring in hundreds of millions of pounds a year in extra revenue from fines.
With this in mind, who knows, maybe it won't be such a short term fix afterall.