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Bridge tolls should go

3rd August 1973, Page 15
3rd August 1973
Page 15
Page 15, 3rd August 1973 — Bridge tolls should go
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Full traffic advantage will not be gained from the £9m Erskine Bridge, spanning the Lower Clyde, until the car and lorry toll is abolished.

This was the feeling of FTA Scottish area secretary, Mr Jack Welsh, on Tuesday. He said that if the bridge, opened in 1971, was free it would ease congestion in Glasgow and in the Clyde Tunnel — the alternative crossing of the Lower Clyde.

Last week politicians, the AA and the RAC condemned tolls on Scottish bridges and said they should be abolished. At present it costs 50p for a lorry to make a one-way crossing.

A spokesman for the Scottish Office admitted that figures for the first year were disappointing but was confident the planners would be proved right.