Fiji's New Road

Toll-Gate Causes Annoyance

FJI residents are proud of the new road, opened recently between Siga toka and Suva, which makes it possible now for motorists to drive right round the large island of Viti Levu. But the decision to pay for the road by means of a toll has caused annoyance.

Nadi and Sigatoka residents are justly irate at the decision of the Government to instal a toll gate on the Sigatoka-Suva Road (says the “Fiji Times”). Toll gates are an anachronism and ?re being done away with in England as much as pos sible.

“We can understand the toll on the Rewa Bridge, as that was part of the agreement, but why, in heaven’s name, a toll gate on the Sigatoka-Suva Road? Are not the people in the back blocks penal ized. enough as it is, without having to pay extra to use the roads?

“In nine cases out of ten the settlers go in to Suva on business, not pleasure, and it costs them quite a bit to get in.

Now, on top of all their other expenses, they have to contribute towards —what?”

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