Skye for summer visitors) met with widespread opposition, spearheaded by the pressure group SKAT (Skye and Kyle Against Tolls). On 21 December 2004 it was announced that the Scottish Executive had purchased the bridge from its owners and the tolls were immediately removed. Bus services run to Inverness and Glasgow, and there are local services on the island, mainly starting from Portree or Broadford. Train services run from Kyle of Lochalsh at the mainland end of the Skye Bridge to Inverness, as well as from Glasgow to Mallaig from where the ferry can be caught to Armadale. The Isle of Skye
Etymology of Skye isle with the mythic figure of Queen Scáthach. The problems with the proposed Gaelic etymologies can be summed up as follows. Firstly, the Gaelic word for "winged" is "sgiathach" and "sgiathanach" is not attested in Gaelic except in the place name and the ethnonym "Sgiathanach" "person from Skye". Secondly, the recorded pronunciations all point towards a clear preceding the "-ach" ending: , , or . This means the form "Sgiathanach" is very unlikely to be based on the Gaelic plural of "wing" ("sgiathan"), which contains a schwa in the last syllable () and would represent a highly unusual adjectival form