STONEY’S BIG BRIDGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 11

STONEY’S BIG BRIDGE

MOTORISTS OPPOSE TOLL

COST MAY EXCEED £10,000,000

The National Roads and Motorists Association in Sydney has decided to protest emphatically against the imposition of a toll on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was pointed out that if a toll of Is was put on the bridge ;ho cost to a North Shore motorist who irove to town each week day would be more than £3O a year.

The proposal to levy a toll was dissussed at the association council meeting. The Mayor of North Sydney, Aiderman Primrose, said that the railway authorities favoured a charge because Zhsy had placed themselves in the awk•wr-*’ of over-estimating the railway bridge traffic receipts. After the first 12 months these were expected t 0 yield a profit of about £500,000 a year, but it was now realised that this was excessive.

Mr. I?. V. Hodgson suggested that gnless the motorists protested emphatically the Government would be euto put a toll of even more tfesn Is on them. A Merman McMahon said he feared mat b*»fvie the job was through the po.'- wouM ;«e considerably more than et acG.