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Old November 21st 03, 08:22 AM posted to uk.politics.misc,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default The effects of a road congestion tax

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:43:32 -0000, "Mikael Armstrong"
wrote:


Well if we had a private company running the roads using all the revenue
from road road users, we would have much better roads than now, as they
would put a far higher proportion back into the road network.

Mikael


Do you have any evidence to support the notion that a private company
would do this? Surely the idea is to spend the minimum on maintenance
etc to maximise profits (hence why the company running BNRR will
charge HGVs £11 each way).
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