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Posts by Andrew Chesters
3 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2008
Puerto Rican corpse stands for three-day wake
Road Pricing 2.0 is two years away
Monday 18th August 2008 10:55 GMT
Least worst, but impossible
Least Worst Option:- Toll Booths
This would only work if a) there are no exits to allow avoidnce, and b) that you have the acreage to build the approach and exit lanes. Neither of these can be met on most of the UK's roads. We just don't have the space to build the system.
I'm with AC above. Scrap Road Fund Tax and stick it on fuel. Double whammy of hitting the high-mileage, poor consumption drivers/cars at the same time. Prior to the last round of tinkering, it would have been trivial to have worked out a price/litre that wouldn't have penalised "Mr Average Driver" but would have saved the Gov a huge chunk of £££ by scrapping the department in Swansea that oversees the collection and enforcement of this tax.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
