Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Road Pricing
I would scrap vehicle licences (tax discs) and replace them with a national GPS-based road charging scheme. The price you'd pay would depend on where and when you drive: if you're driving on country lanes at midnight, it would be zero cost; if you're on the M25 at 8am, the cost would be greater. Laws would be introduced to ensure no other information is collected except for location and time to avoid the possibility of Big Brother situations.
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You oppose ID cards, presumably on civil-liberties grounds (at least in part), but support a system that can track our movements around the country?
I already pay heavily for driving at busy times of day - with my time. Do you think anyone sits on the M25 during rush-hour if they could avoid it? We need to make structural changes to enable people not to travel at these times, not try to price them off roads they don't want to be on anyway. That's adding insult to injury at great cost (both financially and bureaucratically), and for little benefit other than the raising of revenues that could be raised more efficiently through vehicle fuel duty.
I may be coming across as too critical of your proposals, which isn't my intention. It's an interesting exercise you've embarked on, and the best way to test the strength of proposals is to have someone challenge them.
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