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Mersey Tunnel tolls to go?

29th January 1983
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MERSEYSIDE Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged local MPs to renew their campaign for the abolition of Mersey Tunnel tolls.

The chamber is using the Freight Transport Association claims that under present legislation the income from tolls would never be sufficient for the operating authorities to discharge their debts. For most of the crossings the debts were actually increasing with no realistic prospect of even a static situation being reached.

The chamber's letters to Governments of any political persuasion had always led to the same response, all too clearly prepared by civil servants turning up old files, it says.

The chamber says the Government had made it plain to the Merseyside County Council that it expected Mersey Tunnels toll charges to be increased significantly so that the debt could begin to be reduced. The FTA's figures showed that this was unlikely to be achieved.

"We hope you will therefore consider it timely to renew your own representations in this matter which is so important for our region," the chamber tells MPs.


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