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Default Road Tax on driving a vehicle

In article ,
Roger wrote:
More roads generate more traffic don't y'know. Well not really. That is
a myth put about by the anti car lobby. The reality is that we have a
currently unsatisfied demand for road space due to decades of under
investment in the roads network.The irony is that the cost to the
country in terms of wasted time and extra polution caused by slow moving
and stationary traffic is probably greater than the cost of providing
adequate roads would have been.


That's fine if you're happy to have your house knocked down to provide new
roads. Most aren't however. Although they would be happy to have *your*
house knocked down - just not theirs. This first really became apparent
with the London motorway box scheme some 40 years ago.

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*Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental

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