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Posted by Uncle Pete (89 SE) on June 07, 2002 at 13:16:28:
In Reply to: What are your feelings on...... posted by Lordrandall on June 07, 2002 at 12:26:23:
What is disturbing is that people say tolling cars to enter city centres won't work in London, which although Londoners won't admit it, has the best sorted travel infrastructure in the UK. I shudder to think what the effect would be in some of the Northern towns where the public transport systems are shameful. Let's face it - when it comes to fund raising there is simply no easier target than the motorist. More and more people in the UK cities are turning to motorbikes and mopeds because they simply cannot get insured for a car. I really don't know what the future holds, but it ain't bright.
Though there is a lot of talk about toll motorway routes as well. It's hard to come up with traffic management solutions. Toll roads are nothing new to me as I live in Liverpool which is joined to the nearby Wirral Peninsula. Although the toll is very cheap (only £1.20) it puts a mental block in place, and I don't visit the Wirral very often. This means that you might get less cars. By the same token, there is a suburb near me in North Merseyside that pedestrianised its (small) town centre, and the trade in the shops just died instantly.