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Eddington backtracking
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Rod Eddington appeared to backtrack on the issue of road pricing this week by suggesting that pay-as-you-go programmes will be restricted to the most congested areas.
In Eddington's Transport Study, published last December, he warned that congestion on English roads will increase costs to businesses by more than £10bn a year by 2025. He suggested that drivers should pay to improve the speed and reliability of their journeys; that all transport users should pay for the whole external costs of their journeys; and that road pricing was an economic `no-brainer.
But in an interview with the Daily Telegraph last week, Eddington said he has never backed a programme under which every car would be tracked for every journey. Instead he put his weight behind schemes that target only the busiest areas.