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ROAD PRICING ‘LITE’
Toll Tax Zones 'a tax on city living'
Government running scared of 1.8 million petition signatories.
Under the proposals revealed by Stephen Ladyman, drivers would be taxed by zone; as in the London Congestion Charge.
Zones would consist of concentric circles around a city, the tolls becoming more expensive nearer the centre.
The toll within a zone would be the same, irrespective of whether the road was congested or not and residents would not be exempt.
The government is already back-tracking on its claim that road pricing is designed to reduce congestion by proposing a charge unrelated to the congestion of the road.
This proposal will push more people and businesses out of cities and into the countryside.
This is exactly the opposite of what the government has been trying to achieve with its city living initiatives over recent years.
These incompetent governments Ministers are so upset at the level of public resentment of road pricing, that they are now running around like headless chickens coming up with ever more bizarre ideas.
Why can’t the government grasp the simple fact that Britain's drivers do not accept road pricing in any form.
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