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Fees * UK - Road Pricing & Congestion Charging
London,UK -Road Transport, by Louise Cole -5 November 2007: -- Road pricing is a form of demand management for the road network designed to dispel congestion... Congestion charging: Durham was the first city in the UK to implement limited local road pricing in the form of a congestion charge, with London following suit in 2003. Transport for London has claimed the scheme as a success, citing a fall of 25% in traffic volume and improved journey times following its implementation of the £8 a vehicle charge...
The government commissioned Sir Rod Eddington to investigate the future of UK transport and he initially proposed a road pricing scheme, among other initiatives, citing the £7-8bn cost of congestion to British commerce annually... Other polls have also shown a solid opposition although the most recent, by Ipsos Mori, has suggested a bedrock of support provided the government reinvested the money in public transport and the scheme was fiscally neutral for motorists.
The Freight Transport Association has consistently supported the idea of road pricing as a way of decoupling motoring and road transport taxation. It argues that improved journey times and a rebate scheme to operators would compensate for the additional cost.
The Road Haulage Association has however been steadfastly opposed. It particularly objects to the long period in which operators may face the complication of many different regional schemes throughout the country.
Lorry Road User Charge: Current road pricing schemes follow in the wake of the government’s abortive plan for Lorry Road User Charging (LRUC). Supported by the trade associations, the government invested £37m in investigating a way of charging HGVs for use of UK roads and then rebating UK operators. The aim was to decouple HGV and car taxation and ensure that foreign lorries contributed to the cost of UK roads. However the scheme proved prohibitively expensive and unwieldy to implement and was abandoned by transport secretary Alistair Darling. The LRUC was opposed by transport academic Alan McKinnon of Heriot-Watt University... (Picture by Max Miller. Courtesy from BigLorryBlog)
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