Thread: Converting Railways To Roads
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Old May 14th 16, 12:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Converting Railways To Roads
On 14/05/2016 01:22, wrote:

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 13:06:58 on Fri, 13 May
2016, d remarked:

I doubt roads pay their way either even after road and fuel tax have been
taken into account. The M25 widening alone is costing over £100 million
a year.

Fuel Duty alone is 28 billion, and that doesn't include the 5.6bn VAT
on duty. VED is another (roughly) £6bn.

Road costs far exceed that. you are overlooking policing and health costs
for a start.

Oh dear... here come the made-up figures again...

Incidentally, is there a cost associated with ambulances not being able
to get injured people to hospital because of obstruction, etc?
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