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It is disconcerting how the answer to so many issues of government appears to be with the private sector. If the private sector can make it's money and thus profit, for less than the public sector spends this suggests some incredible waste and inefficiency in the public sector, especially as you can bet there would still be a civil servant or two sitting in an ivory tower somewhere to monitor the private sector's performance, adding back to the "saved cost". One has to wonder if there is a better way to get around the vested interests of the public sector and it's unions?

As for roads, if something is a genuinely new scheme then perhaps a toll might be appropriate. It has after all allowed things like the M6 relief road to be built near Birmingham. But any upgrade to existing routes should be ruled out. As is said above the British motorist is heavily taxed, that should be more than sufficient to cover all transportation systems. If it isn't then somebody somewhere should be ashamed of their waste.