La Linea says 5€ toll to enter Gibraltar will start in October

La Linea says 5€ toll to enter Gibraltar will start in October
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By h.b. - Aug 10, 2010 - 8:29 AM
The PP Mayor of La Línea de la Concepción, Alejandro Sánchez, is moving ahead with his plan to charge visitors who want to cross into Gibraltar.

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Alejandro Sánchez has named his toll a ‘congestion charge’ and says it will come into effect in October, possibly on the Pilar bank holiday weekend, once it has been approved by a session of the local council. The PP has an overall majority in the council and so the vote is not expected to be a problem.

The Mayor has said that cars will be charged ‘no more than 5€’ to enter the Rock, and that local residents will be exempt.

He says that lorries crossing into the rock with construction waste would be subject to a ‘radical’ charge, noting that such items have been used for landfill on the rock.
He likened the charge to the congestion charge seen in London and elsewhere, and said that EU jurisprudence protected the initiative.

Describing the Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, as a ‘shameful anti-patriot’, Sánchez has said he is ready for any measure from the Zapatero government to block his idea.

He said he wanted to ‘maintain the good relations’ with Gibraltar, and that council technicians were already working on the infrastructure needed to install the tool booth ‘on municipal land’. Meanwhile traffic changes to come into effect ‘in a few days’ will force all visitors to Gibraltar to drive through the centre of La Linea.

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