"Ian Smith" wrote in message
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"Tom Sacold" wrote in message
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The effects of a congestion tax may not be what NuLabour want to
hear.

"A national road charge will put more pressure on Britain's already
brittle
public transport infrastructure, Ministers have been warned. With
rural bus
services already under threat, and overcrowding endemic on urban
train
lines, public transport would be stretched to breaking point."

See:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/polit...086280,00.html

Perhaps as more traffic jams occur, more people will be encouraged
to find other means of getting there. Perhaps we don't need even more
taxation, which is really just money pulled from somewhere else, and
which we would throw back into the economy anyway, of our own accord.
Funny thing, free market forces.

But of course free market forces only work if people are charged for the
services (ie roads) that they use. Currently roads are free(1)

(1) So you may argue about fuel duty etc.etc. but this is unbelievably crude
in terms of road pricing as to be ignored.

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"Transport is the life blood of the economy."