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ARE MOTORISTS TAXED TO THE HILT?

TAX: With planned tolls on motorways, we ask you if it's too much

Thursday July 17,2008

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DRIVERS face having to pay motorway tolls to beat congestion despite already forking out £45billion a year in taxes, it has emerged.

Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly yesterday confirmed she is considering US-style tolls on designated motorway lanes to give drivers a quicker journey.

There were claims the toll lanes could cost as much as £5 a time but the Department for Transport said it had yet to consider what level they would be set at.

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ARE MOTORISTS TAXED TO THE HILT

06.01.09, 9:18am

This is obviously a stealth tax rather than a bid to ease traffic congestion.
When the government add an additional lane, with a charge to use it, people will see that this government is trying to ease traffic congestion.
Have this government completely lost sight of what is fair and justified?
Do they understand how and why they are in power anymore?
I used to think the government took our money to spend it for our good.
I can clearly see where they take my money but I am having trouble finding the results of my input.
Can anybody help me avoid the potholes on the road on my journey to find the good.

• Posted by: GarethRelph • Report Comment

RE: TOLLS

01.09.08, 10:13pm

Bet they wont get rid of the road tax if they bring in tolls or lower fuel duty....another way of raking it in....again UK paying to use the roads 3X whereas other countries only once...!!

• Posted by: cocklesandeels • Report Comment

RE. TOLLS

29.08.08, 8:21pm

Tolls on the M8 e.g. would be a gold mine. Drivers have no other ways to go from Glasgow to Edinburgh or visa versa. they just wnt to use cogestion as cash cow. and how about satelite tracking? will they abandon road tax? No way.

• Posted by: scotty12 • Report Comment

MISTERRUFF

03.08.08, 8:14pm

Impressive, that i do like :D

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

"RUHE03 AND CHOMERLY"

03.08.08, 5:38pm

Just a quicky!
"Global warming is harming our planet
and fossil fuels make this come true
by footprints of carbon from vehicles
even the ones that are new".
If curbing pollution will stop it
(the government say this is so)
then make a decisive decision
tell car makers were they can go!
But this is not what the great plan is,
big thirsty cars still are made
the idea`s to rake in some money
the warming won`t come if you`ve paid.
So gird up your` loins and accept it
All governments are raking it in
and Gordon along with the others
tell us, not to pay, is a sin.