Re:All cars could be fitted with black box trackers under ne...
by michaelt on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:28AM
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The quote is for a report into "road pricing" [1] by which they seem to mean mean pricing individual roads, rather than roads collectively.
Right now, the country has a variety of toll roads, toll tunnels, toll bridges, congestion charge zones, low emission zones and suchlike. They can have complex pricing schemes - higher for more polluting vehicles, free at evenings and weekends, free for wheelchair users, higher during rush hour, free for taxis and busses. Dozens of schemes across the country have different ways of paying - and often the money goes to local, rather than national, government.
So I think a mileage tax was not in the scope of the report. This was a report specifically asking "what if all roads were toll roads?"
Right now, the country has a variety of toll roads, toll tunnels, toll bridges, congestion charge zones, low emission zones and suchlike. They can have complex pricing schemes - higher for more polluting vehicles, free at evenings and weekends, free for wheelchair users, higher during rush hour, free for taxis and busses. Dozens of schemes across the country have different ways of paying - and often the money goes to local, rather than national, government.
So I think a mileage tax was not in the scope of the report. This was a report specifically asking "what if all roads were toll roads?"
[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmtran...