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On 09/12/2019 13:41, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:21:14 on Mon, 9 Dec 2019,
Graeme Wall remarked:
As for money to burn, it started as a toll road, but then got
sweptÂ* up into a government-funded "shovels ready" project to
stimulate theÂ* 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
themÂ* out about taking on the risk of the tolling
The difference with the A14, and why being a toll road was always
aÂ* rather dodgy public policy decision, is that it would
effectivelyÂ* haveÂ* a monopoly on that particular flow, something
which couldÂ* never haveÂ* been said about the M6T. Think more like
the DartfordÂ* Crossing.
Â*AIUI it wasn't suggested as a monopoly as the plan was to have
throughÂ* traffic tolled, local traffic un-tolled.Â* Â*And the
insurmountable problem with that was "how do you constructÂ* it so
that it is fair to local traffic without having aÂ* non-negligible
volumeÂ* of through traffic trying to become localÂ* traffic and
clogging up theÂ* local route, whilst leaving the throughÂ* route
underused".
Which is the problem with all road-pricing schemes.
Â*Didn't seem to bother the people funding the Dartford Crossing.
Don't recall a rat-run being available to avoid the Dartford crossing.
It's called the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
Which is a major detour through very congested streets for some miles,
not a case of using a parallel minor road to a main route.
As an example of what I refer to, the A33, mostly single carriageway,
runs parallel to the M3 between Basingstoke and Winchester. Road
pricing on the motorway would, inevitably, led to traffic using the A33
instead.
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Graeme Wall
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