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Show NO TOLL TO BE CHARGED FOR PASSING THRU TUNNEL The state road commission announced an-nounced this week that a decision has been reached by the legal department of the bureau of public roads, that the charge made by the national park service for the use of highways in the parks is not a toll charge within with-in the meaning of the federal highway high-way act. The decision settles the issue is-sue at Zion National park in connection connec-tion with the Zion-Mt. Carmel tunnel highway. This removes one obstacle to the dedication by the state and federal government of about three miles of the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway within the area added to the Zion National park after the highway had been constructed con-structed with state and federal aid. One of the requirements of the federal fed-eral highway act is that no toll shall be charged for the use of a highway built with federal aid. When the park service took over the newly acquired addition to the park, the state asked for a ruling on the question of whether the charge made by the park service on all motor vehicles using the highway was in violation of the federal highway act. Now that the ruling has been made H. M. Albright, director of the park service, will be asked by the commission commis-sion what form of transfer of authority auth-ority he desires, to take over the maintenance of the roadway concerned, concern-ed, which has not yet been brought to the oil-gravel mulch standard of the remainder of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Car-mel highway. The state commission also suggests that the economic purposes of the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway, as an all-year all-year highway between Kane county and this section of the state, will be served if the park service, by admin-strative admin-strative action, will arrange for the free use of this highway for those who do not use other parts of the highway system in that park. |
