When Prime Minister Gordon Brown was an opposition MP he fought against the Forth Road Bridge tolls saying that such charges were "totally indefensible on the grounds of logic, equity and economic rationality". Since February the Prime Minister is able to travel across the Forth Road Bridge free to his North Queensferry home thanks to the Scottish Parliament with a Scots Nats majority bringing about the Abolition of Bridge Tolls (Scotland) Act 2008. This means there are no charges on any road bridge crossing in Scotland.
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