There will be some very happy motorists around this morning as the government has made a spectacular U turn with regards to the proposed road pricing scheme that cold have seen drivers having to pay out as much as £1.30 per mile to drive on the country’s roads.
It seems that the Department of Transport has decided that it would be much better to utilise the empty space that used to be the hard shoulder and where a new lane is added to an existing roads and motorways, these will be seriously considered to be eligible for car sharing schemes, toll charging and other congestion relief schemes, whatever they may be.
It seems that the government has had enough of the problems that have come about since they decided to look into the road pricing situation, there have been many protests regarding this including a petition on the Prime Ministers website.
The Governments Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly, said, 'We have been trapped in this sterile debate about road pricing. There are real, practical things we can do today to tackle congestion.'
But is this end of road pricing or has it just bee shelved for the moment so that they can introduce other schemes like the car sharing etc, but no doubt this is not the end of road pricing.
Source [What Car]
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