Your Voice, Your Vote: Tamar Bridge toll should be abolished

Linda Eastlake argued the government should be responsible for the charge because the bridge is part of the A38.She said: "Surely it is a part of the A38 so therefore National Highways should cover the cost, not the residents of Cornwall."

"If I am elected on 4 July, I already have sitting on my desk in Westminster the layout of a private members bill to actually try to change the Tamar Bridge Act to abolish both the tolls on the bridge and ferry," she said.Labour candidate Anna Gelderd said her party encouraged "lower tolls for local people" and she wanted to see improved technology on the bridge.

Reform UK's Cornwall organiser Rob Parsonage, who stood in the party's South East Cornwall candidate Paul Wadley, said: "It is fine for the parties to turn around and say let us get it funded by central government, but that means you are pushing the cost on the people anyway."

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