Business leaders around the Maritimes are feeling optimistic over the news that the cost of crossing the Confederation Bridge and using the Northumberland ferry service is being reduced.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Monday that the toll to use the bridge, which connects Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick, will be reduced to $20 as of this Friday. The rates to travel by ferry between Wood Islands, P.E.I., and Caribou, N.S., are also going down by 50 per cent on Aug. 1. 

The move fulfi…