The new Queensferry Crossing will be toll free, Scotland’s Finance Secretary will announce.
John Swinney will make the pledge during his speech at the SNP conference in Perth as he outlines the successes of the £1.4 billion on-time and on-budget project to replace the Forth Road Bridge.
The new structure is expected to open in 2016.
The Courier campaigned to have tolls removed from the Forth and Tay road bridges before they were eventually scrapped by the SNP in 2008. The party had pledged to abolish the £1 and 80p charges in their election manifesto for the previous year.
Meanwhile, The Courier can also reveal that Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will announce an additional £20 million will be included in next year’s budget to help those hit by the so-called “bedroom tax”.
The additional funding is aimed at enabling local authorities to increase discretionary housing payments for a second consecutive year and help those who have felt the impact of UK Government welfare reforms.
Ms Sturgeon will say: “I promise that we will continue to do all we can to help but only an independent Scottish Parliament will give us the powers we need to scrap the ‘bedroom tax’.”
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