Chance to get some of your own back
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CONSTANT pressure on the Government from all sides, including its own, to increase spending on roads seems to be having some effect. A promised 12 per cent rise in long-overdue expenditure on motorways and trunk roads next year, bringing the total to £726m, hardly ki up with the growth of traffic which was 7 per cent greats year than in 1981. This was biggest annual increase sin the 1960s.
Even with the Governmei largesse, about two-thirds c motor taxation will continui be directed to general rever
Hugh Fetherstone, direct( general of the Freight Trans Association, talking about r costs, said the Treasury wa: already 15 years in credit, IA would justify a total morato on all vehicle excise duty fo next two years. When he lei Tunbridge Wells in a few wi he should move to 11 Dowr Street. There's a job for hirr there.