Comments on: PM addresses ‘failure of nerve’ to increase funding and ease #traffic and #congestion http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/pm-addresses-failure-of-nerve-to-increase-funding-and-ease-traffic-and-congestion/ Economics, environment, mobility, safety Fri, 10 May 2013 07:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Injustice to motorists, my foot! « Pedestrian Liberation http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/pm-addresses-failure-of-nerve-to-increase-funding-and-ease-traffic-and-congestion/#comment-2502 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:56:35 +0000 http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-2502 [...] RAC Foundation have today complained that motorists pay £32b in taxation each year but only get a ‘paltry’ £10b spent on [...]

]]> By: Scott Wilson http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/pm-addresses-failure-of-nerve-to-increase-funding-and-ease-traffic-and-congestion/#comment-2499 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:33:13 +0000 http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-2499 It is time that this became the opportunity for a new relationship between road user and road provider. Motorists feel ripped off, rightly, by the status quo.

The private sector can establish this relationship, but how motorists pay needs to change so that this can be meaningful – which means replacing existing taxes with user charges, or making a start to hypothecate existing taxes in a way that buys services from road providers.

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