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Road charging could benefit us all if we get to have our say
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KEVIN BUCK IS absolutely right in his statement that punitive pricing will not remove a single truck from the UK roads (CM L5 March).This is because transport operators aren't sending trucks out just for the joy of it Trucks are using the roads to provide an important service to the country — the delivery of goods to consumers and manufacturers.
Perhaps a road user charge will result in a reduction in the amount of foreign trucks coming to the UK — trucks that undercut our own transport providers and contribute nothing to the economy of the country other than to motorway service operators for overnight parking...but that's another issue entirely.
Road user charging for trucks should help put this country's operators back on an even playing field with our foreign competitors. Also, road user charging for all should force car users to examine whether that journey they are planning is really necessary or whether there is a cheaper alternative to using their car for the journey, freeing up the road network for those users who have no alternative other than to travel by road.
Congestion costs this industry millions of pounds every year surely a system to reduce congestion would reduce operating costs. fuse the M6Toll regularly at peak times as it does save money A toll of £8 to bypass a one-hour delay is cheap when you consider the £18.30 charge to cross the Humber Bridge, or the E15.30 to cross the Severn Bridge.
I'm looking forward to road user charging, provided we, the public, have a say in how it is introduced.This includes which systems will be used to monitor vehicle journeys, where the revenue from the charge will be spent and how the charge can be made almost (if not completely) cost-neutral to those of us who have no choice but to use the roads.
John Hunt Derbyshire