Road pricing by the mile – yes or no!

[jambutty]

No doubt you will have heard about the No 10 petition against road pricing?

You can find it here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/#content

Deadline to sign up by: 20 February 2007 – Signatures: 1,141,053

You have to input your full name, address and email address.

This petition has become so popular that you will have to try more than once to get your name registered – so don’t give in if your first attempt fails. Add your weight to the opposition to road pricing and all that it could bring. Not least of which is snooping on where you are going and when and in spite of denials, also how fast you travel to get there.

You will get an email (I’ve had three so far) with a link in it to confirm your email address. Again you may have to do it several times because the site is that busy.

[flashy]

i dont drive but NO NO NO NO NO lol

[chav1]

if you drive more then you use more petrol which means you pay more tax so baicly we are aready paying by teh mile

also what about disabled drivers who have no choice but to drive everywhere ?

just another excuse to bring in a tax and all in the name of saving the enviropment

i bet the dill jall circular spews out more pollution than my car does in a year

[***Mr D***]

Already Mentioned This.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=27494

A Defenate NO from me.

[entwisi]

As a high mileage driver it would make it near impossible for me to continue to work where I do if a scheme like this is introduced. However. we do need to be careful about what we do. Congestion at normal 'rush hour' is horrendous hence I travel at ungodly times of the day. I can do this as I work flexi time. If I had fixed hours then I could see it meaning spending even more time than i already do(~2.5 hoursa day). So we need investments in technology so that I can work from home, understanding employers so that we can travel at quieter times.

[shakermaker]

I don't drive or use cars regularly so my opinion is probably misguided in this, but wouldn't implementing something like the Bundesautobahn decrease congestion more effectively than raising taxes/road charges?

[entwisi]

but that wouldn't raise money or "be seen to be green"

[Less]

Originally Posted by entwisi

but that wouldn't raise money or "be seen to be green"

Perhaps we could build it using some sort of EEC grant for green coloured tarmac? There was plenty of cash around a few years ago for the red tarmac to build the none ecological traffic calming and stupid stickee out traffic delaying, bus stops (how much fuel must be wasted by vehicles going nowhere behind buses at bus stops these days?) .

[Ianto.W.]

Road charges, motorway toll's, most other countries use this system, those that use the motorways most pay most, also ban large vehicles off 'A' roads, unless delivering essential goods. Any realy large delivery vehicles, supermaket deliveries and the like in town and city done at night time as they do in London, or charge an inconvenience tax for daytime deliveries, this can be implimented by using a badge system, already in use in some cities.

[SPUGGIE J]

I no longer drive but if I did I wouldnt be up for paying. Make those with the big cars that do the school run only pay. Sorry had a few run in with these bams max trip 1 mile a day total. Take the car even when there is a bus or it 2mins walk away.

[entwisi]

Strangely enough I had never considered a non motorway route to work except last Thursday I had to pick my niece up from Urmston on the way home (She lives in France normally but is over and has been staying with us for a few days). Anyway, I set off from work and stuck the address I needed to get to into TomTom on my phone. I didn't check what route it gave me as I wasn't in a particular rush so I left it up to TT. I was rather surprised though as i got down the route a bit to see it directing me away from the motorway. In the end it took me a completely non motorway route to where I needed to be. From there I knew an easy route through Manchester to home. I reckon travelling at the time I do I could do the whole journey in about 80 mins compared to about 60 mins for a totally motorway route. I bet there would even be some optimisation i could do to it as well.

[lettie]

Signed the petition about a week ago. Although I don't do many miles and mainly use the car for work, I believe that the excessive amount of tax that we pay for petrol is more than enough.

[Mancie]

I don't see why charging by the mile would lower congestion..even if drivers were charged a higher rate per mile at peak times ( e.g £1 per mile) if they only drive 4 miles a day to and from work then its still cheaper than public transport.
In London the congestion charge was brought in to deter from using cars and to switch to public transport.. 10's of millions of £'s have been raised to improve public transport.. but only a few weeks ago bus and tube fares had a massive increase (£2.00 for a bus ride or £4.50 for the tube even for only one stop)!

[panther]

NO we pay enough on rd tax, well some of us do!

[chav1]

instead of crushing un taxed cars they shoudl be sold at auction if money is teh problem