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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2015 · News & Politics

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The small reduction in 2018 offered by George Osborne is not enough

The most expensive road to travel in the world …. see Wales Online

 The Campaign Against Severn Tolls advocates

that the UK government acts now

to abolish the Severn Bridge tolls

  This is why:

Motorists and commercial vehicle operators pay £80 million each year to use the Severn bridges . All parts of the UK motorway network have capital and operating costs, and with the exception of English bridges, those costs are met from the central government budget. There is no good reason why bridges should be treated differently to the rest of the network. 
The Severn bridge tolls are the most expensive on the UK motorway network. The Humber Bridge costs £1.50 for cars, £4.00 for goods vehicles and £12.00 for HGVs.The charge for crossing the Severn Bridge in the west bound direction (England to Wales) in 2015 is £6.50 for cars, £13.10 for goods vehicles, and £19.60 for HGVs,   
Bridge tolls distort and hinder the economy. For that reason all bridge tolls in Scotland have been abolished. A recent study has concluded that abolition of the Severn Bridge tolls would boost the economy of South Wales by £107 million a year.
In April 2012 the government reduced the debt and halved the charges on the Humber bridge. At the time Chancellor George Osborne predicted that the Yorkshire and Humber economy would receive a £250m boost from an increased number of motorists using the Humber Bridge. The economy of South Wales is in urgent need of similar help.
The bridges will revert to public ownership when the tolls collected have paid off the capital costs, expected to happen in 2019, but the UK government will not commit to abolishing the tolls at that time. The removal of VAT on the charges in 2018, offered by George Osborne in his 2015 Budget, is not enough.

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