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soup writes:
On 11/02/2019 00:20, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

All a red herring ignoring that cyclists don't pay for the use of roads in
the same way as other vehicles.

Sigh. NO-ONE PAYS (directly) FOR THE ROADS.

There are no hypothecated taxes in the UK

Really Dave, trotting out old debunked (many times) statements.

Just because you say ' it over and over and ... does not make it true it
just makes you seem a tad 'uneducated'.

It's true that fuel/vehicle taxes are not ring-fenced, but fuel/vehicle
taxes have typically been raising about 5 times the cost of building and
maintaining roads, although in last few years due to additional spend on
many road capacity programs, that's reduced to under 4 times but should
be more than amply recovered.

Indeed, building roads to get more vehicles running on them is one of
the most profitable investments the government can make in terms of
making a direct return on investment.

The only other investment the government can make which comes even close
is generating tourism by spending on royal family events, which is about
the same return on investment, but typically realised over 2 years,
rather than over 30 years for increases in road capacity.

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