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Road pricing insufficient due to 10 year delay

The introduction of an effective national road pricing scheme is unlikey to be feasible for around ten years, and effective action needs to be taken sooner than this to reduce impact of congestion.

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Road pricing insufficient due to 10 year delay
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Action required sooner
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Effective national scheme is 10 years away
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Local pilot schemes
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Address falling costs of motoring since 1997
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Fairer form of motoring taxation
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Other policy measures insufficient alone
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Ring fence revenue from road users for road use
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Road pricing can help cut UK CO2 emissions
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Road pricing schemes effective elsewhere
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£44bn motoring taxes paid per year already
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Everyone will pay £1.34 for every mile driven
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Fuel tax is a form of distance pricing
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Lorry road pricing plans abandoned as impractical
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Penalises familes who live far apart
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Penalises poorer people disproportionately
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Road pricing isn't the most cost effective option
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Road pricing technology is vulnerable to evasion
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Tracking vehicles threatens civil liberties
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