Secret gov leak , roll tolls

[Itchy]

The government are trying to sneak through a bill to put road tolls so you yes you can have the pleasure of paying £1.34 (min) per mile , looks like its time to emigrate.. considering my daily commute of 26 miles (sometimes 80 depending onthe office I am asked to work in) ,
on busy city roads (ie those which attract the highest tolls).

will cost me £34.84 a day, and I make around £50 (poorly paid) , I'd be better off on the dole.

Write your scummy MP ! , unless its labour , cus Labour MPs don't care and will ALWAYS vote whatever Blair says.
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[Retro-Man]

any link to where this information has come from

please don't say MCN
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[Responsible Biker]

See here...

https://www.sundayherald.com/57167

https://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5996392,00.html

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5249538.stm

but I can't find a mention of £1.34!

Oh, hang on, yes I can.

https://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749-2293628,00.html

I also came across this lot....

https://www.notolls.org.uk/roadpricing.htm
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[Cannon]

This will never happen. It's another one of those scaremongering stories that circulate from time to time.
It will be in MCN next week though
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Quite likely will happen. Question is when and how much.

All the best

Keith
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[Responsible Biker]

I reckon it can happen too, but what about the tax on petrol, and vehicle licensing? Will we be expected to pay 3 lots of tax?

My family live in the Highlands of Scotland, where congestion is two cars on the same mile of tarmac. Will those roads be included? Eventually, yes, I bet they would.
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[Retro-Man]

I'll just have my wages paid in to Tony blairs bank account, perhaps he might even allow me an allowance for such luxuries as say my fookin mortgage
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[Teaman]

[mr jamez]

Increasing taxation and costs has never worked to deter people from cars, what they don't seem to get is that people NEED to travel at these times. All it does is puts extra pressure on people who can just about afford it in the first place (like me!)

"just use public transport instead of cars!"
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[MRX Steve]

I wonder whether bikes would be included in the tolls, as they don’t cause congestion and can skip all the queues. If they do bring this in I can see a lot of people emigrating.
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[Itchy]

[grandmaster]

I would love to use my bike for work.
But i sometimes have to take new kit to sites so i have to have my car availalble at all times.

It will cost to much to go to work soon as i own the "dreaded" 4x4 and they want to slap £1800 a year road tax on that.

I'm getting bored with this government.....

[map]

Isn't this a rehash of the old chestnut were they were thinking of charging people different rates based on the time of day and/or length of journey.

Obviously the peak rate was mornings and evenings, just when everyone has to get to work/home or get the jids to/from school

I think the problem was putting the infrastructure in place to actually monitor the vehicles and distance travelled.
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[grandmaster]

[Itchy]

Sure it was a rehash which was meantioned AFTER the election , and considered universally unpopular , now some civil servant did us a great service and leaked it to the papers , such that NL will utterly deny this plan before the 2009 election , and say no we won't tax people to death

but afterwards will laugh and say suckers , bend over and grab yer ankles , and all of a sudden a tax will occur on lube.
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[Itchy]

[Itchy]

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[Slickfish]

Now I wouldn't mind this so called pay as you go system, as long as they get rid of road tax, and the huge tax on fuel!!!!.
As we are already paying, its like having a contract phone then buying a pay as you go to make calls!!!!.

[Itchy]

[Spike]

Gahh, things like this make my blood boil. I honestly think the current government are out to make every "normal" person absolutely totally reliant on them. They seem to be gunning for a country where we're all living out of their back pocket, which of course is fuelled by us in the first place. So in effect we'll all be busting our asses at work to earn £0 per year in order to get £20k worth of benefits and "help", to make it look like they've done a great job of helping out the people who need it. Anyone seen Bean the movie? One giant prison. That comes in and I'm leaving for a country that's actually worth living in.

Hmm, I'm not the biggest fan of our government am I. Rant over

[bbc1]

I was going to say it's just another P'off from the govt but then isnt everything they do!

When you add up we lose roughly 30% in nat ins & tax they then nail us another 17.5% on what we spend so we've already lost 50% before we even think about a tank of gas or something to actually put it in, the fokkers wont be happy until we give them whole friggin lot ffs.

Why oh why couldnt guy fawkes/ira have done the job properly

another rant over
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[Itchy]

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

All these schemes will merely mean people will go around in and on unlicensed, un roadworthy, un insured vehicles more and more.

Many through necessity, and yes it is now a necessity for some people to use their vehicles.
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[The View Askew]

Eventually I'll jet off out of the country, send some lookalike immigrant back home with all my papers at the end of my visa, and cease to exist.
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