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The new Mersey Gateway bridge
In the first month of opening over 50,000 drivers received a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN). Some claimed to be unaware of how to pay the toll since no signage of how to pay was evident nor a telephone number supplied to pay the toll. One driver who used the bridge and did not pay the toll received 28 PCNs totalling £616. He wrote to "Merseyflow" appealing the PCNs citing that they were in breach of both the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Act 2008. Merseyflow agreed, quashed the PCNs, and accepted his payment of £56 for the amount of crossings he made.
In accordance with the "Mersey Gateway Project vehicle Recovery Policy" if a vehicle has a breakdown whilst on the bridge, recovery is only permitted by a designated authorised company. No roadside repairs, refuelling or tyre changing is permitted unless by special permission. The recovered vehicle will be taken to an appropriate place where it will be impounded until the recovery fee is paid. Fees at present are a minimum of £150 plus VAT for a two wheeled vehicle and small vehicles not exceeding a Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) of 3.5 tonnes
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Exposure: 1/5000 seconds
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Filter: NONE
Processing Tool: CS5 + Silver Efex Pro
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This picture of the mighty milky way was taken in a small town in Cornwall called Porthallow. We stayed there for three nights in a BnB. The roads to get there were creepy but the town, the nature around it and the silence with the milky way at night was just outstanding.
The Mersey Gateway bridge this morning at dawn. I got there just as the lights were turned off. I'll have to get up a little earlier next time.
On the East Coast of New Zealand just past Opotiki is Torere Beach, with a magnificent carved Maori gateway at the entrance to the Torere School on the top of the hill as you leave the bay and Hawai Beach.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011
Imagination is such a world, where you have every bit freedom….
You can go wherever you can……You can have whatever you want
All you have to do just open the gate of imagination……
Captured from Institute of fine arts, Dhaka University
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Steel framework from the Rock Island Swing Bridge at Swing Bridge Park in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California - Looking out over the Tea House on the crystal clear blue waters in spring. From the wider collection © www.paulreiffer.com
Love the shapes and angles of the Celtic Gateway bridge at Holyhead which opened on 19th October 2006 by Andrew Davies AM.It made of stainless steel and 160meters or (520ft) long and 7meters (23ft) width.
These are the corridors of Gateway Center early Sunday afternoon. Usually during the week, there would be people bustling about. However, it was just me (and another lone person at the far end of the skywalk photo).
I must have been fortunate to be there at just the right time for the water to go perfectly still, maybe the mid point of the tide. The reflections from Mersey Gateway bridge lights just went ping. I had been trying to smooth out the tide flow using long exposures a few minutes before but this was far more effective
A portal to another era
A mortal tour of our mirror
Janus to our camp.
Diogenes with his lamp.
And so we go
And lo, find our way home.
---Mike 5/13/2007; rev 5/23/2007
This was the gateway, formerly with a fence from our formal yard to the tree swing, and woods where my brothers, friends and I played - snowsled, bicycled, ran, jumped, hopped, imagined and dreamed.
Coming back from Thailand after a yoga retreat in Bangkok, the plane stops at Doha airport in Qatar. This modern building is filled with unusual lines, spaces, shapes and curves that are complemented by their own reflections in the shinny marble flooring underfoot, beckoning on weary travellers through the otherworldly opulence of this labyrinthine structure, till they arrive at their respective departure gates. When looking down, one can be forgiven for feeling as though they are walking on water; the slightly imperfect undulating surface causes rippled reflections of self and other, much like one might see in the still calm of a morning lake. As travellers fleetingly pass through this mesmerising desert gateway leading to the rest of the world, they wander around the shopping malls, gazing at luxury goods and wares that seem to lie just out of reasonable reach.
A man stops to take a selfie while standing in front of the latest Porche sports car, smiling as if having found the promise of all that is good and wonderful in the world.
As this shot was taken, security guards looked on in an indignant fashion, sometimes staring at wherever the camera was pointed to see what was being captured… But after several moments of looking at the normal scene in front of them, their gaze would return to the travellers passing by, getting ready to depart this antechamber of inequity.