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Old November 17th 03, 12:06 AM posted to uk.politics.misc,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
Nick H (UK) Nick H (UK) is offline
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Default The effects of a road congestion tax

Diversity Isn't A Codeword For Anti-White wrote:

"Chris Jones" wrote in message
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Rural bus services are under threat because no one uses them, and those
that do are probably recieving about £10 subsidy per journey.


And even less people would if motoring was cheaper in rural areas due to


the

congestion tax.


A congestion charge would help more marginal public transport systems
pay for themselves, and the business about train overcrowding can be
solved by allowing companies to charge higher fares on the basis that it
must be used to improve the service - which has a 2 fold benefit of
an immediate reduction in demand (due to higher prices)


So it ends up where people can no longer afford to drive, and they can't
afford to take the train either, so everybody just sits at home all day


and

the economy goes to pot. Great thinking.



you missed out saying that if more money was spent on road maintenance
rather than being stolen by the government to waste on crap like economic
migrants and if councils stopped purposely creating congestion(for their
congestion tax), then traffic would move much quicker.


Do you mean the money raised by road tax and tax on fuel? ie the taxes
/already/ levied on the motorist? I completely agree.





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