Rail freight warehouse terminal could do well from Severn bridge public ownership
A Gloucestershire businessman has met with a government minister to highlight how tolls on the Severn bridges are detrimental to the local economy.
Mr Burgess believes that having to use the bridges adds 10% to delivery costs. Currently it costs £6.20 to take a car over the bridges from England to Wales, driving into England is free, whilst the toll for vans and minibuses is £12.40 and £18.60 for lorries and coaches.
This could hopefully be changed however, as the privately owned bridges are due to revert to public ownership in 2018, and people like Mr Burgess are determined to keep the pressure on for these costs to be cut, if not removed all together.
Mr Burgess said although nobody was prepared to make any concessions or promise anything during his meeting he was determined to keep pressing the case. ”I think the only way we’re going to get anything done is by being a continuous squeaky wheel and it’s always the squeaky wheel that gets the oil,” he said.
Source: BBC News