Carnegie reads: "ON A day of history and high emotion, the Scottish Parliament yesterday passed the law to scrap the tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges. MSPs voted by 122 votes to three, with one abstention, in favour of the Abolition of Bridge Tolls (Scotland) Bill, which will now go forward for Royal Assent. Parliament also backed a Scottish Tory amendment that will prevent bridge authorities from introducing tolls under the guise of congestion charging in the future. The £1 charge on the Forth Bridge and the 80p charge on the Tay bridge could be lifted at the beginning of February."
It's amazing what a difference a couple of years can make since the last time the Scottish Parliament refused to abolish tolls on the same bridges, at the same time as it was abolishing them everywhere else.
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