Road charging to cost £300 a year
That's the cost but how much will you pay?
£300 a year for this?
The Telegraph has reported that internal documents that outline how the road charging scheme would work suggest that the cost of setting it up is £62 billion plus £8.6 billion a year to run it. This means every motorist could end up paying nearly £300 just to cover the expense of collecting the charge, according to the department's feasibility study.
The study looked at a range of options. These included making motorists pay to use the outside lane on motorways, which would be physically separated from the rest of the carriageway. And the cost of the widget that car owners would have to install ranges from a simple £15 transmitter through to journey trackers that could cost over £500 each.
The report follows the PM's determination to press on with his road charging policy despite fierce opposition. This has so far centred around the e-petition on Downing Street's Web site that collected 1.8 million signatures.
But the row continues. There's been a call from an MP for a referendum (see link below) as reported in the Manchester Evening News and supported by the Association of British Drivers.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports that "it emerged" that, using congestion-charging technology, the police has monitored hundreds of ordinary motorists. This will confirm the fears of many who see the road charging scheme as a Trojan Horse for those who want to see Britain, already the most surveilled nation on the planet, move further towards a total surveillance society.
Spokespeople from NO2ID, which is opposed to ID cards, said: "This sort of tracking represents an enormous threat and eventually people will become almost anaesthetised to their every step being tracked. It is tragic that a Government is prepared to think about this sort of thing."
Others pointed out the huge scope for things to go wrong in a scheme of this size; the government has a poor record of containing costs or even getting large computerised systems working in the first place.
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Trying to stay away as long as possible man, reading PH everyday to get the latest info is seriously heartbreaking, I can't beleive all the crap that is going on man. Its almost worse standing back from afar seeing whats happening.
Imaging if thats spent on fixing our road and public transport
Or even greener car technology!
I'd put some in that nice sounding lotus project...
You're not kidding mate!!
What sort of country will this be in 10 years? Time to sell up before everyone realises and the house prices fall off a cliff...
My letter:
'Dear Australia/Canada,
please may I come in (and my family too)? My country has been ruined now.
p.s.: please may the one or two million Brits that are still hard working and right thinking come too?
p.p.s.: learn from our mistake and never elect a bunch of self-serving liars that couldn't organise their own underpant drawer.
yours faithfully
jaker'
Unless this is being driven from Brussels - and Tony is the puppet.Someone in another post did mention Galileo .
I would vote in an instant for a party that would repeal all the stupid things this shower have done to this country, even if it meant some restrictions to return to a world with 'common sense' laws. Rant over!
Does make me wonder how the DFT website can claim any scheme would be revenue neutral compared to the current tax system. Either they have a gaping hole in their finances to pay for the implementation, or(as I suspect) the revenue neutral applies to the net ammount they recieve, and we end up paying the implementation costs on top.
How the **** does something cost that much money?!? Ferchristssakes, you could rejuvenate the NHS for that much money, but clearly helping people isn't a government priority. C***s, the lot of 'em.
Where did you say the Canadian Embassy was?!? (I too have a wife that still needs persuading...
)Let's assume it projects a 5 year implementation; which is the standard 'bullsh1t' for large complex civil service projects...
That equates to implementation costs of:
£12.4 Billion per year
or
£1.033 Billion per month
or
£238.5 Million per week
or
£34.07 Million per day
or
£1.42 Million per hour
or
£23,657 PER MINUTE of EVERY HOUR of EVERY DAY of EVERY WEEK of EVERY MONTH of EVERY YEAR of your life for 5 YEARS!!
And this is the same government who underestimated the Olympics cost by 300%...
I'm going to change job... as a consultant for this project I expect to be able to retire within 10 yrs, which should still be long before it's implemented.
£8.6bn... roughly the cost of hosting an olympics every year including buildings and regeneration?
LISTEN to what they're saying - REVENUE neutral, NOT cost-neutral.
And if the per-annum per car cost will be £300, then you can bet commuters will end up paying about twice that to maintain the average...an extra £50/month out of your pocket just to pay for the privilege of being tracked like a criminal by this government.
And that doesn't account for the £62 BILLION (sorry, had to capitalise that) set-up costs (which as said will probably top £100bn). So say a payback period of 10 years, no discounting (i.e. 13-15 years effective), and you've got £6-10bn per year to lump into this, which will be another £200-£350 per car, which again will be average, so say twice that for a commuter.
Rough guess then, ladies and gents, is an extra £100/month raped out of your pocket for no f*****g good reason!
At 40% tax that's £2k of salary you've just lost overnight when this is implemented.
And that is money that will probably go to a foreign company, so they can set it up and run it.
Tony B-Liar and his
wit ing wanking government can just shove this load of shit up their ing arses. The more this speculation goes on, the more and more people will be up for a mass protest to get these s out of power.Gassing Station | Motoring News | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff