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A piece related to [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42464125 ]this article[/url] was just shown on TV.
All well and good but "[i]From 2020 the money for road improvements will come from vehicle excise duty, which raised £6bn in 2016.[/i]" A start to linking use of public roads to payment of VED? Or a start to the end of all taxation going in to the general pot and then assigned to departments and projects?
From what I hear that 6bn will just about cover the cost of the one bridge a couple of mates are working on at the m1 near eastmids airport. 😯
From what I hear that 6bn will just about cover the cost of the one bridge a couple of mates are working on at the m1 near eastmids airport
That's a good wage packet between the two of them! 😆
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From what I hear that 6bn will just about cover the cost of the one bridge a couple of mates are working on at the m1 near eastmids airport
Given that the entire A14 improvement plan that's currently going on is going to be £1.5bn, it must be a bloody big bridge!
The A14 is basically being completely rerouted from Alconbury to Swavesey with loads of completely new road, and several massive junctions etc.
It's a bloody impressive feat of engineering, logistics and project management.
Just a shame it's already buggered up my commute and there's still 3 years of it to go...!
A start to linking use of public roads to payment of VED? Or a start to the end of all taxation going in to the general pot and then assigned to departments and projects?
Unless the government plans to open a separate VED bank account then you can say its either. You can say that tobacco duty pays for road improvements and VED pays for social care if the sums involved are roughly equivalent. Or you can say that they don't.
The problem with a nominal link to VED for 'improvements' and new infrastructure rather than maintenance (which largely comes from local authority budgets) is drivers in, say, Shetland pay the same VED as everyone else but will see very little benefit of multimillion pound bridge and bypass developments that they are led to believe that they're paying for.
I reckon the govt (no cap G) are simply doing what the Audit Commission have been asking them to do since the commission was setup in back in 83’.
Shame it will just lead to drivers feeling even more self entitled to abuse cyclists
They should do what is done is Spain - you pay the road tax direct to the Municipal Council where you live/the car is registered.
Only the “Autopista” is centrally funded - the rest is down to the councils.
Everyone pays.
Or they have no car - its that simple.
Large projects are then applied for and funded by the central government and/or EU.