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No toll tunnel help
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MERSEYSIDE County Council should pay off its £29m toll tunnel debts in the next five years, said Transport Minister Norman Fowler.
He has rejected the county council's plea for financial aid. Help for authorities who run toll crossings was not available under present legislation. But now there are fears of a threefold rise on the toll in the next decade.
Motorway organisations and local community organisations are to continue to press for the tunnels to be treated as a trunk road. Income from the tunnels meets running costs twice over, but the huge debts have been incurred through interest rates on capital borrowed to build them. Mr Fowler has intimated that if the tunnels do not start showing a surplus by 1984, the County Council's loan facilities for them could be reduced.
Tolls for heavy vehicles went up to 70p and, private Cars to 30p early in September. A toll of El for private cars is being forecast by the late 1980s.