Road charging is the way forward
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kFTER READING Billy lien's response to Brian Weatherley it is I who is in lisbeliefThe only way forward or this country is by introducing road user charge. People need o be discouraged from the lependency we have placed ipon having and using our own vheels to commute.
Road user charging is coming in, ike it or not, and it is better to iccept the fact and ensure that we et a say in how and how much han to fight it and refuse it full stop. It was a mistake not to proceed vith the proposed lorry road user :harging system.All over the EU )ur partners are raking in money rom every truck that travels its • oads, no matter which country it s from, yet here we are losing our ndustry to those very same :ountries' transporters because hey are here with cheap diesel, :heap labour and trucks that we lave helped them purchase hrough European grants.
What we have to do is ensure hat the revenue from the charge s invested back into the transport .ysterns — and vehicles chucking )ut poisonous black smoke pay or the mistake of killing the )1anet we live on.
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