Privatise motorways

[Kickstart]

Hi

What are the RAC Foundation thinking about:-

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6087207/RAC-Foundation-Government-should-consider-motorway-sell-off.html

Not like the M6 Toll has been a success, and now they are calling on the government to consider making the same mistakes with the existing motorway network.

Suppose the side effect of the RACF employing someone (Stephen Glaister) who had long fought against private road use and for ways to penalise private road users.

All the best

Keith
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

So toll roads as well as VED, and Fuel Duty!

Road pricing by the backdoor anyone?
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I'd pay to use a motorway where there weren't:

Traffic wombles
Speed restrictions
Laws restricting undertaking (that is, overtaking on either side, not just people being transported once dead)
Poor people

So In summary, if someone would do this to all the motorways around here, I'll gladly give them £10 a year.

[Luke_Retrofly]

[UnknownStuntm...]

^^ It's called 'Swine Flu'.

[Luke_Retrofly]

I've always thought of installing sterilization machines at such places as KFC, Primark, doll office and housing association offices.

The thing is the dose is small, so you can visit any of these now and again and not be effect, keep going to these places regularly and watch the rate of teenage pregnancy plummet!

[WishayKillie]

Expect the government to really push road tolls through over the next decade.
The fact that more cars are going "hybrid" and have higher fuel economy, with the government scrappage scheme tempting more people to buy new cars. Plus with the emergence of fuel and hydrogen cell technology getting closer to production, it means that they are gonna loose a lot of revenue from higher end road tax and duty on fuel.
They cant exactly start taxing green technology, so rather than the cars power system expect the road the cars drive on to be taxed in another form alongside the usual road tax
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[Polarbear]

The government hate hybreds. No tax.

What they really hate is non smokers - people who dont buy fags that are 450% tax and then don't die, so pensions have to be paid.
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[baldy]

If they put the speed limit up to 150 i might go on a motorway.

If the motorways get privatized, it means that these companies can lower speed limits at will and charge what ever they like for people to use them. They could even ban motorcycles from them completely and say they are too dangerous or are at risk.

They should ban cars and let only bikes on, that way it would be safe.

Motorways are for gimps. Why pay to go slow in a straight line when you could go fast round winding corners with little traffic?
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[ricky_v]

Will they never learn the mistakes from privatising everything in the 80's?
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