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By Jo Best

Published: Thursday 09 June 2005


Name

Miles Gaynor


Location

Yorkshire


Occupation

IT Manager


Comment

Congestion or Pollution - which is the issue?

It seems to me that a typically metropolitan bias has been taken with this idea. No mention has been made of differentiating charges according to engine size/type or efficiency. The only issue the government seems concerned with is congestion.

Under this scheme you will pay the same to drive in a 12mpg SUV as you would in a hybrid powered Prius - the government has it backwards. Roads will be reserved for the rich and public transport kept for the poor, which is not the way to build an effective transport policy for the future.

Instead of investment in effective public transport, and taxation of fuel ineffecient private transport, the proposed scheme is merely a revenue generating project designed to open another vein for the governement to leech out taxes.



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