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THE FANTASTIC PRICE OF ROADS PRICING
The costs of installing roads pricing are the same as the cost of doubling our entire motorway network according to recent figures.
An article in The Telegraph [1] reported that DfT costs to create the roads pricing infrastructure have been estimated at £62 billion.
The Prime Minister's response to the road pricing petition warned darkly that motorways cost up to £30m per mile.
Department for Transport reports that we have 2,199 total miles of motorway network. [3]
A simple calculation reveals that the total installation costs of roads pricing are about the same as the cost of our entire motorway network.
It is very hard to believe that anyone is actually stupid enough to believe that fantastically expensive roads pricing would be anywhere near as effective at managing traffic such as by a doubling of our entire motorway network.
The Prime Minister warned darkly of the costs of building motorways while glossing over the costs of roads pricing. How barking is that? However, very typical of this totally incompetent and corrupt government
This proposed 'Toll Tax' is a crazy grand design beloved of no one except politicians and technology suppliers who given all the evidence would appear to be very cosy with each other.
All roads users should get along to www.traveltax.co.uk today.
All roads users should get themselves to the Heart of England Rally and the 30th Brum Demo
[1] Daily Telegraph: http://tinyurl.com/2xo4zo
"A blueprint drawn up by the Department for Transport showed it could cost £62 billion to set up and £8.6 billion a year to run."
[2] http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page11050.asp
"Tackling congestion in this way would also be extremely costly, requiring substantial sums to be diverted from other services such as education and health, or increases in taxes. If I tell you that one mile of new motorway costs as much as £30m, you'll have an idea of the sums this approach would entail."
[3] Dft site: http://tinyurl.com/32qsdw
Table: 7.6: 7.6 Roads lengths: Great Britain: 1914- 2005
Total length of motorway network, 2006: 3,519km = 2,199 miles, 3,519km = 2,199 miles (from 5/8)
Miles of motorway purchasable with roads pricing infrastructure costs: £62 billion / £30 million = 2,066 miles of motorway.
Costs of our total motorway network at present day prices: 2,199 * £30m = £65.97 billion.
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