Commuters in Britain are being priced off the roads and public transport, it has been revealed.
A Tory dossier claims that the cost of running an average car has leapt from £1,400 in 1997 to £2,197 today.
However rail fares are also set to soar on a busy main line railway – forcing people to rethink using their cars.
The document also showed that petrol prices have risen by 8% since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister nine months ago.
Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said: ‘The Government is trying to hide its failure to tackle over-crowding on railways by using fare increases to try to force people off the railways and back into their cars.’
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