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Originally Posted by martyh
Not really ,profit in business is created by efficiency ,government run services like the road network are "not for profit" ventures .If this happens then i bet you won't see a forest of cones on a toll road on bank holidays ,you will see a increase in night time works ,we may even get the A1 dueled all the way to scotland currently scrapped by central government due to cost but a private company would make a killing
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Or the profits are made by forming cabals and milking the customer and I thought the idea was to provide competition, well there's only one Mtwentywhatever and you can guarantee the independent regulator will be as useless as the energy one.
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Originally Posted by martyh
The problem at the moment is that any toll roads/bridges/tunnels are just single items they are not part of a tolled network and so are pretty much useless at money making .
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The QE2 bridge makes millions every day and we were told once it was paid for it'd be free to use...