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Christine, DHB could not afford to use any significant amount of its income from the Port to give to the town, as they have to finance port maintenance, pay the salaries of their staff and also service their pension scheme.
Hence we need an additional Port Toll as a public revenue, completely separate from that of DHB, such as Calais has, for example. Ours is probably the only Country in the West that does not charge any kind of toll for road transport, and ports are clearly connected to roads and transport.
The port is a transport facility as is a tunnel, and all tunnels in the Alps charge a considerable sum for passage of vehicles, adding to the road toll.
It would be nice if DPPT, instead of just flinging spanners in the only feasible proposal for local regeneration, would actually cooperate!
