On 2/07/2014 12:00 PM, Michael Scott wrote:
People don't want to pay tolls but then they whinge about having to pay taxes.
If there were tolls on the road you have the choice of using it or not and paying or not. Without tolls and with taxes funding roads you have no choice. It comes out of general revenue. I don't know that tolls on roads is the problem.
The gridlock will occur because of increases in population and more cars on the road. The idea is to create a road system that alleviates gridlock. Does this alleviate gridlock or not?
Plenty of monies are collected in taxes at the pump and in lots of other places even before the car hits the road for the first time; there is no shortage of revenue. More monies in GST, duties and other taxes. There is clearly plenty of greed to make everyone pay more and to line some road builders pockets with gold -- not so much the builders themselves, but the /owners/ of what should be a public road! Gridlock can be avoided somewhat by not closing off lanes and forcing /badness/ onto road users, particularly those that don't want to line those pockets ... I am totally against road tolls, the M1 should have been 100% self funded, but we have 30 years to pay and there is a chance that it will actually never end. Rise after rise with CPI, the costs will be enormous in not too many years. A.