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Road toll and congestion charging schemes 

iGreens love road tolls.  We don't much like paying money to governments, and would prefer to drive on private roads.  But free roads are such a disaster that even paying money to Ken Livingstone is better than sitting in jams and breathing in other people's car fumes.  One day maybe self-funding roads will be sold off to private road companies.  

The government's plans for road charging are slowly taking shape.  Ken Livingstone’s plans for central London are not the only ones.   Click here to read Breaking the Logjam, the Government's consultation paper on fighting traffic congestion and pollution through road user and workplace parking charges.  The following is an incomplete list of what's going on.   We will be updating it. 

London

Ken Livingstone’s scheme will go live on Monday February 17 2003.   There will be £5 charge from 7am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday within the inner ring road.  

Emergency vehicles, motorbikes and mopeds, buses and coaches, disabled Blue Badge holders, black cabs, licensed minicabs, firefighters and some NHS staff will be exempt.  Residents get a 90 percent discount.   Alternative fuel, breakdown and recovery vehicles will be eligible for a 100 percent discount on payment of an annual £10 registration fee. Click here for details

Toll roads

Durham

The proposal is to impose a £2 charge on vehicles entering the city's historic centre on the Durham peninsula, where the cathedral, castle and university are sited.

Derbyshire

The council is preparing plans for charges of up to £3 for motorists wanting to use the only road that leads up to the Ladybower visitor centre, one of the most popular attractions in the Peak District National Park, with the aim of persuading visitors to travel there by bus.

The M6 Toll Road

This 27 mile three lane motorway will run from the M6/M42 junction north east of Birmingham to the M6 at Cannock.   It will bypass one of the most congested stretches of motorway in the UK and is scheduled open in early 2004.  Payments will be either via tollbooths or automated electronic tags.   It is estimated that it will save peak hour travellers between 30 minutes and an hour over the relevant section.    The tolls have not yet been set.  Click here to read more.

Workplace-parking charge schemes

Charges are likely to be set within a range of £2-£5 a day

Bristol

Birmingham

Cardiff

Chester

Cambridge

Milton Keynes,

Nottingham

The council will introduce a workplace parking levy on employer commuter car parking to start in 2004.  For Nottingham’s transport plan click here  

Reading

City centre tolling zones

Bristol

Bristol City Council’s Integrated Transport Strategy includes development of a road user charging scheme for the city centre. It proposes an electronic cordon with 14 entry gates charging vehicles on inbound journeys in the morning peak.

Leeds

The proposed scheme would require motorists to buy a permit to use roads within an area roughly bounded by the Inner Ring Road. The scheme assumes 35 crossing points involving about 56 traffic lanes, 100,000 users per day, and mobile enforcement patrols. Vehicles would be required to display a permit on all roads within the charged area. The scheme will support a Leeds Supertram, improved bus services and new railway stations. Leeds has already been selected as a site for the DETR’s electronic road user charging demonstration due to run between 2001 and 2002.  Click here for details of the Leeds Supertram.

York

The Council plan three new park and ride sites, four new commuter railway stations, ring road improvements and congestion charging.

Other toll stuff on iGreens

Whitney toll bridge

River Severn

Jim Thornton 21 April 2002

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