BRF attacks road pricing
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OAD user organizations will firmly oppose any move by Transport Minister Mrs. Barbara Castle to introduce road pricing as a means of restricting traffic, says the British Road Federation.
The Federation claims that serious consideration by the Minister of such a policy in apparent isolation from wider issues involved reflects the Government's consistent failure to take a practical view of modern traffic requirements and the narrowness of its policies on roads and road transport.
BRF chairman Lord Chesham adds: "If she (Mrs. Castle) wishes to make her proposals more acceptable, then road pricing must be part of a general overhaul of road administration and finance with the income passed on to a national roads board to further road development."