As you may be aware, the mayor of La Linea has advanced plans to implement a new scheme meaning that people leaving Gibralter will have to pay a toll.
Contrary to toll regulations, road users have no alternative other than to use this toll road. All this is rolled out under the predominator of "a congestion charge". Worse still, some people will be exempted, like campo residents and Spanish workers and Gibraltarians, making this scheme discriminatory. La Linea is close to bankruptcy with its council workers not having been paid for months.
The mayor aims to raise EUR 30 million through this scheme, whereas everybody else already knows this is a lost cause. Gibraltar is expected to respond should this scheme be implemented. One of the measures at hand by the GIB government is no longer allowing the Spanish workers in, adding a further 4,000 unemployed to the already 10,000 unemployed in La Linea., which has a population of around 65,000. It is believed many more unregistered Spanish workers cross the border every day.
Earlier this week the office of the mayor was stormed by council workers demanding their wages.
More information on this contraversional scheme will follow during a press conference scheduled for Monday 9 Augustus in LA Linea.
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Vista Hermosa resident