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GILT members back calls for road-user charging

26th August 2010, Page 14
26th August 2010
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cnristopher.waltonfarbi.cci.uk A MAJORITY OF members of the Chartered 1 list t ute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) support some form of road-user charging as the best way to raise funds for transport improvements.

In a first-of-its-kind survey of 1,244 members of the CILT, designed to influence government spending cuts in the Department for Transport. some 40% of those surveyed wanted to see some form of congestion charging in urban areas, while 36% wanted road charges for new road capacity and 28% wanted to see road charging for existing roads.

Surprisingly, 12% of CILT members surveyed suggested raising fuel duty as the best way to collect additional funds from the transport sector. Members were able to supply more than one answer to the survey.

Sir Moir Lockhead, president of the CILT, says that the proposed introduction of a lorry road-user charge would pay an important part in changing public perception over road-charging schemes— following votes against congestion charges in Manchester in 2008 and Edinburgh in 2004.

"The mechanisms our members were looking at are pay-as-you-go, where you pay for the level of activity Congestion charging has not won the hearts and minds of those in London and it has been rejected by the public. It needs a lot of work to win people over that it is not just another tax."

Steve Agg, CEO of the CILT. adds: "The industry has faced successive increases in fuel duty that does not see the difference between commercial and personal use. The government needs to look at our members for more sustainable ways of raising revenues."

Meanwhile. CILT members want the government to safeguard transport spending that encourages economic growth and reduces congestion. Some threequarters (75%) said that the priority for protected spending was on projects that supported economic growth.


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