Road pricing policy a bad idea

Bring it on !

Get the oiks off my roads.

I can afford it - you lot can catch a bus.

The government is only thinking of all the extra whitehall and local government jobs it can create with this scheme, thats why we still have tax discs instead of extra tax on petrol, to create more red tape and easy jobs for the box tickers, their aim is to make the running of the country as conplicated as possible, to keep usless ass-shining wasterers in well-paid employment, any-body who denys this is just defending the corrupt powers that we have, this country's people should all be living in 4 bedroom detatched houses with two cars with the wife staying at home, but because of all of the hidden taxes, and red tape, and people doing well paid non-jobs,to buy a flat, or starter home, both now have to go to work non stop till they are thirty before they can start a family, this country is so corrupt.....

Road pricing is really a nast idea, brought forward obviously by someone who can afford such luxury. They want all the roads to themselves, because no one on an average wage with a family to keep could not afford such luxury. It would cause huge unemployment because less people would be able to afford to run a car. The public transport services are inadequate and therefore thousands of people would not be able to work. I am sure the people who make these decisions are on footballer's wages. What about the disabled. This idea is pure evil.

Another example of "Big Brother"and the "Nanny State"
If they want us not to use our cars, let's have a nationalised transport industry, where the greedy shareholder and moguls such as Branson & co cannot extort money on the pretext of making our transport system better.
The railway in particular ,was not great under nationisation,but we could ,at least , afford the fares.

I've just come back from a six week trip around Eastern Europe where we paid in excess of 250 for tolls/vignettes, compared with the £180 UK road tax.

With so many foreign lorries/vans using our roads, polluting our country etc and many of them bound for Eire so not even benifiting us why is there no charge levied on them?

We are being hit with higher road taxes/VAT and the threat of road charging etc but why are foreign companies getting away with paying nothing?

The manchester congestion charge, is it a tax on where we live?.Is It a good thing or a bad thing for people who live around the M60? I think the councils are getting greedy just like the government, and where would the money go if and when It does happen? Sorry, but I think this is a tax for the fatcats of manchester council - please have your say...

I have read the comments on this, and most comments seem to miss the point the point of Road Pricing; this Labour Government has been committed to getting drivers out of their cars as part of the Governments "Green" policies.
BUT, and this is a big BUT, how many people remember one of the first things that the BLiar government did when they got into power ----- THEY CUT ROAD BUILDING projects --- projects planned by the previous Tory government.
Our roads were already overcrowded, and ten years of inaction have brought the country to an almost gridlock situation because of the lack of road improvements in the time this governmet has been in power.
I remember when Vehicle Excise Duty was actually called Road Tax, and the original point of that Tax was to improve roads, but like all taxation, it is corrupted from it's original intended use, and used to fill the coffers of the Chancellor. I have no doubt, that Road Pricing will go the same way as Road Fund Licence.
Be aware though that if Road Pricing is introduced, your every journey can be monitoured, due to the tracking tecnology needed to collect the Tax; Yet more erossion of our "Freedoms(?)".
I also doubt that Road Pricing will reduce traffic unless it is designed to be expensive, and from experience IT WILL become expensive ( the Tolls for crossing the Severn Bridge illustrates this point).

I have read the comments on this, and most comments seem to miss the point the point of Road Pricing; this Labour Government has been committed to getting drivers out of their cars as part of the Governments "Green" policies.
BUT, and this is a big BUT, how many people remember one of the first things that the BLiar government did when they got into power ----- THEY CUT ROAD BUILDING projects --- projects planned by the previous Tory government.
Our roads were already overcrowded, and ten years of inaction have brought the country to an almost gridlock situation because of the lack of road improvements in the time this governmet has been in power.
I remember when Vehicle Excise Duty was actually called Road Tax, and the original point of that Tax was to improve roads, but like all taxation, it is corrupted from it's original intended use, and used to fill the coffers of the Chancellor. I have no doubt, that Road Pricing will go the same way as Road Fund Licence.
Be aware though that if Road Pricing is introduced, your every journey can be monitoured, due to the tracking tecnology needed to collect the Tax; Yet more erossion of our "Freedoms(?)".
I also doubt that Road Pricing will reduce traffic unless it is designed to be expensive, and from experience IT WILL become expensive ( the Tolls for crossing the Severn Bridge illustrates this point).

I have read the comments on this, and most comments seem to miss the point the point of Road Pricing; this Labour Government has been committed to getting drivers out of their cars as part of the Governments "Green" policies.
BUT, and this is a big BUT, how many people remember one of the first things that the BLiar government did when they got into power ----- THEY CUT ROAD BUILDING projects --- projects planned by the previous Tory government.
Our roads were already overcrowded, and ten years of inaction have brought the country to an almost gridlock situation because of the lack of road improvements in the time this governmet has been in power.
I remember when Vehicle Excise Duty was actually called Road Tax, and the original point of that Tax was to improve roads, but like all taxation, it is corrupted from it's original intended use, and used to fill the coffers of the Chancellor. I have no doubt, that Road Pricing will go the same way as Road Fund Licence.
Be aware though that if Road Pricing is introduced, your every journey can be monitoured, due to the tracking tecnology needed to collect the Tax; Yet more erossion of our "Freedoms(?)".
I also doubt that Road Pricing will reduce traffic unless it is designed to be expensive, and from experience IT WILL become expensive ( the Tolls for crossing the Severn Bridge illustrates this point).

Why dont people get it?????? DONT VOTE LABOUR

why????

under this govt the population of UK has grown by over 15million and even then 10 million of these are non-british people

because of this cars have increased and now the govt wants to make us pay for using roads to reduce congestion

what a bunch of hypocrites the LABOUR party are yet the british public do not nothing but vote them back in!!!!!

Road pricing is being brought in to fund Galileo, the European Satellite network. The government have already agreed to do it so its going to happen.

I'd just like to add that alot of people are missing the point of road pricing. The need to cut congestion is not the real issue, or at least the reason why the government wants to introduce it.

The government is pushing the car industry and its customers (us) hard in the direction of low emmissions high mpg (miles per gallon) cars. In a matter of 10-20 years most of us will be driving either highly efficent, low fuel consumption, combustion engined cars; or hybrids/electric cars. This will mean a massive decrease in the demand for fuel, which is a major source of tax income for the government.

This will mean less money for public spending, which under the Labour government will make them look bad. They know they cant just increase road tax in the obvious way because people wont like that, they may loose support. So the issue of congestion is a neat way of increaseing the tax we pay with out an obvious tax increase.

The simple fact is everyone will pay more for transport if this goes ahead. Even the supporters who dont drive will have to pay extra, throught their taxi fairs. And do you think the train/bus companies wont see the opportunity and increse prices, when they realise people are increasingly turning to the trains/busses?