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Welsh toll threat

30th January 1992, Page 16
30th January 1992
Page 16
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• Hauliers who are dependent on the Cleddau Bridge over Milford Haven, which links North and South Pembrokeshire, face toll rises of 400%.

Dyfed County Council has called for a meeting with Welsh Secretary David Hunt, and warns that unless he writes off the £12m debt built up in interest charges since the bridge was completed 18 years ago, the HGV toll will have to rise to £4 by 1997. The county council is bound by law to claw back the costs through tolls.

Letterston, Dyfed-based haulier and tipper operator Evans and Williams (Transport) uses the bridge up to 25 times a day and says it is "sick" about the proposal. Transport manager Lain Tite says: "It's going to be a big problem because we won't be able to pass the cost on."