What are your views on pay as you go road charges.?

Answer 1

Charges on motorways would be a good idea but charging everyone by keeping their beedy little eye on our every move and speed, time, place, distance, it's an infringment of our liberty. Talk about Big Brother State!
Some people here are saying that toll roads work well in other countries, but most other countries don't already pay massive fuel taxes, as well as car tax, which are all supposed to be the equivalent of road taxes. WE add road tax on top of it and we're then paying three times over for the same thing.
Ok, impliment the toll's but remove the other taxes that we're already paying. This government is strangling it's people with taxes.
Road toll's began in the 17th century. People hated it then as much as they hate it now. They frequently rioted in protest (particularly bad in Bristol where they burned down most of the turnpikes).
Most other countries have a better public transport system too, which is government subsidised. If I didn't have a car, living where I live, in Wales, I could only go to town on a Tuesday. And it would have to be at 10am. There is only one bus a week, on market day.

Answer 2

Not on. Just like lots of other people in the UK, I pay the Road Tax or Road Fund licence to be able to put my car on the road so why should I have to pay more in a 'pay as you go' scheme? Do away with the Road Tax and put extra duty(although that's high enough already) on petrol. These 'road toll' schemes are nothing to do with congestion, environment or anything else but just a tax grab to fund Labour's spending.

Answer 3

I haven't really read much into the detail of the scheme but it seems like the same old chicken before the egg to me: They put the prices up on cars eg congestion zones in London and other toll charges on motorways to try to encourage people to use the public transport system but the public transport system isn't capable of taking all the extra passengers who stop using their cars! Try getting onto a train to London during peak times to see how hard it is getting a seat. I agree with the ethos of trying to reduce emissions etc but let's start to see some of these taxes we're paying actually making a difference in improving the public transport system!

Answer 4

A damn good idea!

We've all had it too easy for far too long.

You only need to look at how clogged up the roads are now.

Surely getting people to pay for the amount of miles they have driven is a much fairer way of paying for road usage than the current system where we all pay a road fund licence regardless of our actual road usage.

If this policy has the effect of making people actually think about whether they need to drive somewhere or not then it must surely be a good idea. People might actually start using their feet or a bicycle instead of driving, people might actually send their children to their local school instead of driving to the next town, and people might actually get a job closer to home or indeed move nearer to where they work in order to cut down on their driving.

This would all have a beneficial effect, not only on the level of traffic on our roads, but also in helping to keep down carbon emissions.

Answer 5

The largest tax con ever. Once it's in, it'll NEVER go away. The money will go to help to pay DSS payments and very, very little will go on road building and repair.

It is a total lie. Time after time, Labour introduce yet another tax con - they use the word 'environmental' in order to try and get everyone on board.

Vote them out at the next election. (But who could we replace them with? Cameron? That's not even funny.).

Answer 6

well if i have to pay it, then i have to pay it, but only worth if they scrap road fund licence and reduce the excise on fuel, just one more bill, i don't know why everyone is having a fit, the people are the vested interest of the government, how else do you think they raise money, which is prime objective.

I did notice a difference with the congestion charge my journey times were reduced dramatically!

Answer 7

Another excuse to tax us and use the money for white elephants like the dome. Don't the government realise that you CAN'T GO EVERYWHERE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT!! We need our cars!! And I already pay road tax and tax on petrol.

Say I want to go from my house in Brighton to my friend in Thamesmead in East London. I could drive there. If I leave now it'll take me around 80mins. Or I could go by public transport which, according to the traveline website will take me 196 mins.... Not much of an incentive is it?!

Answer 8

Do you mean toll-roads or gasoline tax? They're both "pay-as-you-go" road charges.

I'm all in favor of toll roads. They equitably ensure that those who use the road pay for it.

Gasoline taxes do that somewhat, too. I'm in favor of both.

Answer 9

Its another excuse to drag more money out of the tax payer so that Gordon the Toad can disguise the complete bloody mess he's made of the finances of this country.

Answer 10

Why don't they just make it one car per family and no townies allowed 4x4's they take up half the road in town and are usually driven by short R'sed power mad women.