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Could this be the start of "ROAD TAX"?
Good news for cycling!
The Times today: Britain’s first pay-per-mile road charging system could be introduced under radical plans to cut the number of car journeys on the country’s busiest roads. A wide-ranging strategy to be outlined by the London mayor today will consider charging vehicles based on distance travelled in the capital, to push people on to public transport. The plan is also likely to include even higher charges for the most polluting vehicles to encourage a rapid shift towards zero-emission cars. It would be the first pay-as-you-go road pricing system in the UK and represents a significant step for transport policy. It could replace the existing £11.50 congestion charge, which is a single flat rate fee for entering central London irrespective of time spent or miles travelled. Governments have mooted the idea of pay-per-mile road pricing for more than 50 years but schemes have been rejected amid fears that they would be hugely unpopular with motorists. Sadiq Khan will seek to resurrect the proposal today as part of an extensive transport strategy that will attempt to cut the number of car journeys in the capital by three million a day. The mayor hopes that the proportion of journeys taken by public transport will rise from 64 per cent to 80 per cent over the next 25 years. The strategy will “explore the next generation of road user charging that could harness new technology to better reflect distance, time, emissions, road danger and other factors in an integrated way”, the mayor’s office said. “This could include a single ‘per mile’ charge which takes into account both congestion and emissions objectives,” it was claimed. In a statement, the mayor also said that Transport for London would work with individual London boroughs to develop other traffic management policies. This could include localised systems that charge motorists to drive into an individual area, or a workplace parking levy that will force them to pay to drive to work. In further measures it emerged that the mayor was considering creating “healthy routes” – roads where walking and cycling are given priority and cars are banned altogether on certain days. Other policies include banning car parks in new housing developments to force residents to consider green alternatives to their own vehicle. Edmund King, president of the AA, told The Times: “If it is just a straight road pricing scheme, it is going to be very difficult to sell to the public. Drivers don’t trust the government to come up with a workable scheme and that’s the danger here.” |
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Could this be the start of "ROAD TAX"?
On 21/06/2017 14:35, colwyn wrote:
Good news for cycling! The Times today: Britain’s first pay-per-mile road charging system could be introduced under radical plans to cut the number of car journeys on the country’s busiest roads. A wide-ranging strategy to be outlined by the London mayor today will consider charging vehicles based on distance travelled in the capital, to push people on to public transport. The plan is also likely to include even higher charges for the most polluting vehicles to encourage a rapid shift towards zero-emission cars. It would be the first pay-as-you-go road pricing system in the UK and represents a significant step for transport policy. It could replace the existing £11.50 congestion charge, which is a single flat rate fee for entering central London irrespective of time spent or miles travelled. Governments have mooted the idea of pay-per-mile road pricing for more than 50 years but schemes have been rejected amid fears that they would be hugely unpopular with motorists. Sadiq Khan will seek to resurrect the proposal today as part of an extensive transport strategy that will attempt to cut the number of car journeys in the capital by three million a day. The mayor hopes that the proportion of journeys taken by public transport will rise from 64 per cent to 80 per cent over the next 25 years. The strategy will “explore the next generation of road user charging that could harness new technology to better reflect distance, time, emissions, road danger and other factors in an integrated way”, the mayor’s office said. “This could include a single ‘per mile’ charge which takes into account both congestion and emissions objectives,” it was claimed. In a statement, the mayor also said that Transport for London would work with individual London boroughs to develop other traffic management policies. This could include localised systems that charge motorists to drive into an individual area, or a workplace parking levy that will force them to pay to drive to work. In further measures it emerged that the mayor was considering creating “healthy routes” – roads where walking and cycling are given priority and cars are banned altogether on certain days. Other policies include banning car parks in new housing developments to force residents to consider green alternatives to their own vehicle. Edmund King, president of the AA, told The Times: “If it is just a straight road pricing scheme, it is going to be very difficult to sell to the public. Drivers don’t trust the government to come up with a workable scheme and that’s the danger here.” "Drivers don’t trust the government to come up with a workable scheme...". And they trust Labour politicians - particularly Mayors of London - even less. |
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