By Marcelle Thomas
There will be no tolls for crossing at the country’s three main bridges – the new Demerara River Bridge, the new Berbice River Bridge, and the new Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge, Upper Demerara River – when they are completed, President Irfaan Ali last evening announced.
He also said that government is in talks to acquire the current Berbice Bridge in hopes of removing those tolls long before the new one is constructed.
With the New Demerara Harbour Bridge scheduled to be completed next year, Ali said that if government doesn’t seal a deal to buy the Berbice Bridge by that date, the PPP/C will ensure that the tolls are removed.
“On the completion of the New Demerara Bridge, crossing at the Bridge will be free of cost. For those who are arguing about mathematics you don’t need a formula. The mathematical model is pure and simple… the toll for crossing will be free of cost,” Ali announced at the opening of the new Crane-to-Schoonord Highway in Region Three.