03/05/2010
Two letters from my local newspaper, the “Liverpool Echo” (UK).
TRY TWO WHEELS.
CAR drivers who object to the £1.40 Mersey Tunnel charge should consider the option of taking to two wheels.
I have good reason to remember the day tunnel charges for motorcycles dropped from 20p to nothing. By way of celebration I whizzed through the Kingsway Tunnel on my Honda wearing my helmet, underwear and nothing else, while my similarly (un)dressed mate Tracy clung on to me as pillion.
Of course I was a younger than I am now, and definitely more resilient to the cold!
Mandy Cross, Wallasey.
DARED TO BARE.
LIKE Miss A Carter (ECHO letters, Dec 6), I was cheered by Mandy Cross's account of how she rode her motorcycle through one of the Mersey tunnels in her underwear.
I owned a convertible car when I was in my early twenties and one hot day four of us decided to take a ride in it with the hood down wearing our bikinis. It was OK until I drove into the Birkenhead tunnel, at which point my sister reached over from the back seat and deftly removed my bikini top.
Because of the "no stopping" rule in the tunnel, I could do absolutely nothing about it until we emerged from the other end!
There's another Mersey tunnel regulation - you're not allowed to sound your horn in there. But I noticed a heck of a lot of drivers were ignoring this rule as they passed us. I can't think why!
Donna Howard, Great Sutton
Poster:
Geraldine June