On 08/12/2019 09:14, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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
economyÂ* 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.

AIUI it wasn't suggested as a monopoly as the plan was to have through
traffic tolled, local traffic un-tolled.

And the insurmountable problem with that was "how do you construct it so
that it is fair to local traffic without having a non-negligible volume
of through traffic trying to become local traffic and clogging up the
local route, whilst leaving the through route underused".


Which is the problem with all road-pricing schemes.


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Graeme Wall
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