Meeting taking place today to decide on TamarTag admin fee increase
The meeting follows a public backlash and opposition from local MPs to the proposed 150 per cent rise
A crucial meeting to decide whether users of a Tamar Crossings discount scheme will pay more in admin charges will take place today (Monday 12 January 2026).
The meeting follows a public backlash and opposition from local MPs to the proposed 150 per cent rise.
The Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry Joint Committee supported to increase the TamarTag admin fee from 80p a month to £2 at their meeting just before Christmas, after hearing that the current fee didn’t cover costs of running the scheme.
But there has been disappointment from regular users of the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferries who had already experienced an increase in crossing charges just a few months earlier.
TamarTag is a prepaid electronic tolling system that offers 50 per cent discount on tolls. In May users saw a 20p increase in the toll charge to £1.50 and car and vans without a Tag now have to pay £3 to cross from Cornwall into Devon via the bridge or ferry.
Members of the joint committee, made of councillors from Plymouth City Council and Cornwall Council, said the increase was necessary to plug a hole in the finances.
Campaign group The Tamar Toll Action Group said the admin fee rise would not be good for “any resident or business reliant on crossing the Tamar to go about their daily lives”.
“Twenty-four pounds a year just for the convenience of having a Tag account is more than local account holders subscribed to the residents schemes for the Dartford and Mersey crossings pay for an entire year of crossings,” it said.