UK government not prepared to share toll revenue after bridges revert to public ownership in 2018,says Carwyn JonesThe Severn toll crossings linking south Wales to England will become a Whitehall-imposed tax on Wales with no benefit to the Welsh when the two bridges enter public ownership in 2018, it is claimed.
Wales’s first minister, or Carwyn Jones,said the M4 and M48 links across the Severn river were seen as a “cash cow” by a UK government that was not prepared to share toll revenue and with “no money coming to Wales at all”.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com