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PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE…

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PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE PENARTH TOLL-GATE. A movement has been initiated for the removal of the toll-gate on the Penarth-road between Car- diff and Penarth, and the abolition of the tolls. The road and bridge were originally constructed at the join expence ot the Marquess of Bute and Lord Windsor, through whose property the road passes, and an Act of Parliament was obtained to enable them to levy tolls on all vehicles using the thorough fare in aid of its maintenance and repair. When Mr Solomon Andrews first commenced to run omnibuses to Penarth and Cadoxton that gentleman made arrangements with the representatives of the Marquess of Bute and Lord Winsor to rent the gate and keep the road in repair. This state of things has now been in force for some years, and the same tolls are now exacted as when the road was first constructed. The traffic, however, has enormously increased, and it is felt that the road and bridge should be taken over by the local authorities and the tolls abolished. This is considered to be all the more desirable since the old highway toll-gates have become obsolete. MR. SOLOMON ANDREWS' PEELING ON THE MATTER. Mr Solomon Andrews declares that if a move- ment were initiated he would beino obstacle in the way. He was simply the tenant, and no man in South Wales would be better pleased to see the gate removed than he would. It was simply a matter of negotiation between the Cardiff and Glamorgan County Councils, the Penarth Local Board, the Marquess of Bute, and Lord Windsor. CARDIFF CORPORATION RECOMMENDED TO PURCHASE. A special meeting of the Cardiff Cabs Committee was held on Tuesday at the Town-hall.—Mr Good brought forward the following recommendation That the attention of the council be called to the tolls imposed upon omnibuses and other vehicles plying for hire or using Penarth-rord, and as the same imposes a heavy burden upon the proprietors, in consequence of which some;have been compelled to cease running on the route, the council be respectfully requestsd to take the whole matter into their consideratien with a view II to the abolition of the toll by the roads and bridges being taken over by the corporation jointly with the Glamorgan County County, and vested in the borough authorities. —The Chairman suggested, and there was a con- sensus of opinion in favor of the suggestion, that the public works committee was the best authority through which to make the recommendation to the council, the cabs committee stonsrly em- phasising the desirability of adopting it.—Mr Good concurred, and proposed a resolution accordingly, which was seconded by Mr John Woo3, and carried unanimously.

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