It is putting elderly, disabled and improvrished people at even more of a disadvantage
Disabled to the point they cannot and do not access the Internet, but not enough to prevent them from driving a car. Could you perhaps give an example?
Impoverished enough to be unable to access the Internet in a major city, and yet able to own and operate a private motorcar which they drive over a toll bridge? Do you think this is common?
essentially you need to buy an internet device in order to use a road.
There was a lot of hand-wringing -from people who wanted to park without paying- when London boroughs introduced mobile-phone only carpark charging (Islington, for example, and Barnet). It turns out to be entirely bad faith: people who operate cars that they own, but do not have access to the Internet, don't exist.
What if you're a tourist? Don't speak English?
Tourists who are either renting a car or have brought their own on a ferry and are driving it in the UK, but have neither a mobile phone nor any sort of computer with them? Do you think that's a common problem? It would be interesting to know how they booked their hire car or bought their plane ticket. Can't speak English to the point of not understanding simple signs, but are driving into central Liverpool? Common scenario, would you say?
I stayed in b&b and another couple had totally missed all the signs about the tolls and were going to get fined. (I counted 5 signs)
If they drove past five signs without seeing them then they shouldn't be on the road.
It's cut 15 minutes of my journey time.
And if you had to queue to pay, it would cut less time off.