In message , at 23:53:02 on Sat, 7 Dec 2019,
tim... remarked:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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As for money to burn, it started as a toll road, but then got swept
up into a government-funded "shovels ready" project to stimulate the
economy due to the construction jobs created.

And there was me thinking that after the M6T disaster all of the
constriction companies told HMG to "go swivel" when they sounded them
out about taking on the risk of the tolling

The difference with the A14, and why being a toll road was always a
rather dodgy public policy decision, is that it would effectively have a
monopoly on that particular flow, something which could never have been
said about the M6T. Think more like the Dartford Crossing.
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Roland Perry