The bridge brought in tolls and taxes, as did the merchants passing through the city.

Some $4 million a year in tolls would still be lost.

Commercial vehicles would face a 35 percent increase in tolls.

Just in tolls alone, the city spent $2.25 million last year.

Just getting to the meet cost $4.50 in tolls, and parking was $10.

The wooden bridge was completed by November 1843, and within a little over a year had raised 453pounds in tolls.

But he also said, "The fact is there have to be increases in fares and tolls as time goes by."

During the preceding decade £33.3 million in tolls had been collected.

We had to pay about £20 in tolls on the motorway.

Much of that seems to be because of the recent increase in tolls.