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Old November 16th 03, 09:05 PM posted to uk.politics.misc,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
Ian Smith Ian Smith is offline
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Default The effects of a road congestion tax

"Tom Sacold" wrote in message
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The effects of a congestion tax may not be what NuLabour want to

hear.

"A national road charge will put more pressure on Britain's already

brittle
public transport infrastructure, Ministers have been warned. With

rural bus
services already under threat, and overcrowding endemic on urban

train
lines, public transport would be stretched to breaking point."

See:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/polit...086280,00.html


Perhaps as more traffic jams occur, more people will be encouraged
to find other means of getting there. Perhaps we don't need even more
taxation, which is really just money pulled from somewhere else, and
which we would throw back into the economy anyway, of our own accord.
Funny thing, free market forces.

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"Transport is the life blood of the economy."