Privatising Roads gets ok from CBI

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Apology if repost but I thought of this from this thread - Which useless civil servant thought this up? - two tier road tax pricing.

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Meh it was only a matter of how long compared to when, still wonder where this money is going to go doubt it will touch the roads, hmm maybe he will say to reduce the debt When he is actually paying the interest if any and not touching the debt as that was still going up.
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Road tax being abolished then? because I sure as f*ck wont be paying twice.

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Thinking about it this will be great for the economy, just think if they want to manage it at all they will have to turn them into a kind of toll road, with a person at each slip road Otherwise they are never going to enforce it..
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this isnt going to end well at all. can fore see signs like no motorcycles popping up all over the place with these new plans.

ease traffic? bollocks will it. roads will get worse, chances are more accidents are going to happen* and all this money will be going into the back pockets of people who dont need anymore cash.

*who do we report fuel/oil spills to if the HA is removed?
who will we report pot holes or other hazards to?
who will ensure that hazards are taken care of?
who is going to make sure that the roads are maintained?
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[Benno]

Reduce costs?

How the fuck will they do that?

I will still pay my road tax, I will still pay for insurance and MOTs, I will still pay for fuel...and that WOULD be that, but now I will have to pay TOLLS as well? Fuck off Cameron you conservative cunt.

"Plans to privatise the roads won the backing of business leaders"

OF COURSE IT FUCKING DID, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT WILL MAKE MONEY FROM IT

FUCK YOU DAVID, FUCK YOU CONSERVATIVES, THE PEOPLE SHOULD OWN THE COUNTRY, NOT A SELECT FEW RICH ASSCUNTSHITFUCKERS


On a related note, is this why almost every single motorway in the country currently is being worked on (50mph average speed zones ) with signs saying "upgrading to managed motorways"? That doesn't fill me with positive thoughts, in fact all that says to me is "Big Brother is going to be watching you".
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All we do then is N30 our plates to the undertray

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The Daily Mail is as reliable as The Sun. Lots of FUD, little substance.

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To the above by Usually_wrong.
Employing people is costly though.
You have to pay wages for one, then national insurance. Plus you'll need insurance cover for your employees, buy them a uniform, put up places where they can work, 'rest' facilities (i.e. so they can relieve themselves at least), etc.

Whereas it's a one-off cost to install something like ANPR gantries and the network and computer servers to monitor it. Plus they'll be an asset that can be written off against tax as well so even cheaper investment. People can't be written down/off (although you wouldn't think so would you). As said it's a one off cost that'll get cheaper when put against the income over several years on the business model. People are a recurring annual expense.

However, different companies have a different way of looking at the value/cost of people based on their bottom line. When I worked on oil and gas safety systems the kit was set up to protect the working parts. Based on that it could be a 3 to 12 month lead time to replace a part like a generator (IIRC we used RB211 jet engine based stuff). So if it went down you'd be losing money. People on the other hand were cheaper and quicker to replace. So if a few got killed/injured then no big deal (any bad publicity handled by marketing so no worries).

Just some thoughts
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yes but what do these electronic/automated systems put back into the economy?

the government is saying the country needs more jobs, heres a prime oppertunity to ensure jobs are created on a permanent basis.

tax, national insurance, less benefits being used. all of this helps bring the country out of recession and debt. it also gets people working again.

more machines doing jobs = less national income.

if you run a company big enough to buy a stretch of motorway then im pretty sure that company can afford to employ people to manage the tolls.
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The Tories ran the national industries down till they creaked and became worthless shams of what they once were....

(Nationalisation was how the government, at the time, prevented industrial meltdown after WWII. By bailing out Private Industry that had been habitually raped by its owners.)

...So they could be sold off for a bargain basement price to the highest bidder/s and the stupid British idiot public sucked it in bought a few worthless shares which imeadiatly made a few pounds and were promptly sold off to a few greedy bastarts who's been waiting in the wings to gobble all the crumbs up.

Fucking Thatcher.

We need these Tories OUT and Alex Salamander in.

Seriously it's another scam to line the pockets of those who aye have their pocket lined by Improvement Programs such as this.

Does any fecker know if the French have any Guillotines for sale?
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Da fuq is happening to the world seriously

There can only be so much bullshit they can put through until people kick off
Bring on WW3, i'm bored now
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Yep, all conceived, studied, funded amd set in motion by the labour government. It's cost MILLIONS to put up all those little white ANPR cameras.

And you all thought road pricing was dead - this is just the same devil by another name.
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I wouldnt mind this if they also adopted an autobahn approach to speed. Imagine how fast you could get places with no speed limits
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