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mark occomore
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 Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:10 am Post subject: Biggest Roads Transport Shake Up |
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Road Tax and better pricing of fuel are plans being put forward to help the road user.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/347695/Road-tax-to-be-scrapped
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Have we got room for road tolls? Our roads are busy at most of the time with extra hold ups. ( Dartford Tunnel is one of them ). M6 Toll is too pricey and people don't use it.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| Does the Government control the roads if it went to pay as you drive, or would it go out to tender for private firms to run? |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Biggest Roads Transport Shake Up |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Road Tax and better pricing of fuel are plans being put forward to help the road user. |
To help the road user? To add another revenue stream for the Exchequer, you mean.
| mark occomore wrote: | | Have we got room for road tolls? Our roads are busy at most of the time with extra hold ups. ( Dartford Tunnel is one of them ). M6 Toll is too pricey and people don't use it. |
That's funny, because the last time I used the M6 Toll there were lots of vehicles on it. |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| It's another way to monitor speeding too. I don't like the idea as it will cost more to implement. |
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John W
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: Biggest Roads Transport Shake Up |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | M6 Toll is too pricey and people don't use it. |
Mark, people DO use the Toll road. Have YOU ever been on it?
I've used it several times this summer getting from Cov to Manchester Airport in the morning. It's worth a fiver just to breeze through the West Midlands at 9.00am.
I have to say though that not enough drivers use it. If I'm going to Brum then the toll road is not a sensible route, you have top stay on the M6and exit at 5 or 6, or further for black country. And at those exits it's clear a lot of folk are heading north and adding 45 mins to everyone's sloooowww journey!
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: Biggest Roads Transport Shake Up |
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| John W wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | M6 Toll is too pricey and people don't use it. |
Mark, people DO use the Toll road. Have YOU ever been on it?
I've used it several times this summer getting from Cov to Manchester Airport in the morning. It's worth a fiver just to breeze through the West Midlands at 9.00am.
I have to say though that not enough drivers use it. If I'm going to Brum then the toll road is not a sensible route, you have top stay on the M6and exit at 5 or 6, or further for black country. And at those exits it's clear a lot of folk are heading north and adding 45 mins to everyone's sloooowww journey! |
Yes I have been on the toll road. I do drive for a living. It's a costly way to run roads when we already pay through the noise for fuel, Insurance, and road tax. I believe we already pay 12p tax a mile on fuel. There are lots of advantages for taking away road tax, but there are lots of disadvantages which one will be costly and lots of arguments. It's a way for the Government to try and move people off the roads onto public transport, but that isn't improved much.. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: Biggest Roads Transport Shake Up |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Yes I have been on the toll road. I do drive for a living. |
So how do you conclude that "people don't use it" when they clearly do?
I think that RFL should be abolished, and the taxation should be shifted onto fuel use. That way, the motorist pays according to usage of the public road system. |
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