[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>There will always be occasions where you have to take a particular route, >whether or not you actually want to go that way at that time. Only if you refuse to arrange your life so you don't. A key purpose of road pricing is to encourage you to make such changes. >So you then have >to choose between going the way that has higher road charges (where there is >less traffic because everyone else is steering clear of them) or join the >traffic queues on the roads behind all the others on the cheaper/free roads. Yup. This is exactly what happens with the toll motorway around Birmingham. It seems to be working well. >These traffic queues will, of course, cause more pollution than the >free-running >traffic on the more expensive roads. Actually, they will probably balance out, as the more congested the untolled road gets, the more people will be willing to pay to use the tolled one. >Am I confusing myself? ;-) Yes. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
