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Originally Posted by Sirius
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I no longer use it because it costs FAR to much. |
The problem with the M6 toll road is that it is only realy effective during rush hours if you want to by pass birmingham ,any other time it doesn't really provide any time saving for the cost and couple that with the huge increase of traffic on other roads as road users use them instead because of financial reasons and the road rapidly becomes unprofitable .
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
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Roads budget is in the region of £9b annually, however if one adds in the huge amount of revenue contributed by VAT and fuel duties, (ours are the highest in Europe) on transport together with other levies and taxes then there is more than enough, IIRC the last estimate for all revenues on road transport was about £50b
I seem to remember a certain TB saying we motorists had to contribute our road/transport taxes to keep the NHS afloat.
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That's my point ,simply using VED to raise money for roads as was the original intention ,would be nowhere near enough IIRC VED only raises 5-6 billion and that is put in the general tax pot not ring fenced for road use only ,that's why fuel tax is there ,to offset the shortfall in VED .We also need the excess taxes raised from road taxes to fund things like the NHS and welfare so the only way to build new roads or properly maintain roads is to take money from those services or raise taxes in general ,or build toll roads