Local Euro MP: Humber Bridge - It's unfair! Not a level playing field

4.23.13pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 8th Oct 2007

Following Saturday's demonstration by the local campaign to axe the debt on the Humber Bridge and lower the tolls, local Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Diana Wallis, said:

"We learnt last week that the Government is to support London's Crossrail project to the tune of £5 billion.

"The debt on the Humber Bridge is about £350 million. In comparison to the sum committed to Crossrail, this is a comparatively and fractionally small amount.

"It seems to me that this is unfair and it comes on top of the new Eurostar rail link, Wembley Stadium, the London Olympics and other projects costing billions of pounds.

Diana Wallis MEP, who lives in the East Riding and supports the objectives of the Humber Bridge toll campaigners, went on to say:

"All of these projects are deemed to help the economic and social regeneration of London and the south-east. If there is one project that would help such regeneration in this sub-region it is scrapping the debt on the Humber Bridge and bringing the tolls down to a sensible level. There is clearly not a level playing field when it comes to financing these sort of projects."