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The Chancellor is facing a huge budget hole due to the rise in the use of electric cars, and a national road pricing scheme is one option to deal with it
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- November date for EU funding replacement for WalesThe UK Government says it’ll give details of its proposed replacement for European Union funding after November 25th, more than three years after it was first announced and with little or no time for the consultation which was promised.
Times Online
- The Times view on changing the way road use is taxed: Drivers’ Duty [subscription]Charging motorists according to their road use would ease congestion, benefit the environment and help to plug a long-term gap in the public finances
- Speeding driver hit 152mph on a 30mph road [subscription]Drivers are travelling at five times the speed limit on some roads, with one motorist clocked at 152mph in a 30mph zone, a study has found.
- Support drivers to switch to cleaner forms of transport [subscription]It is widely acknowledged that harmful and illegal levels of air pollution in the UK have led to a public health crisis that is damaging the health of millions of people, particularly older people, children and those with health problems.
- Charges for using roads to fill £40bn black hole [subscription]Rishi Sunak is considering plans to charge motorists for using Britain’s roads amid concerns over a £40 billion tax shortfall created by the switch to electric cars.
The Mirror
- Drivers could be charged for using roads as Sunak looks to plug £40bn shortfallThe Chancellor is facing a huge budget hole due to the rise in the use of electric cars, and a national road pricing scheme is one option to deal with it
The York Press
- Council transport chief speaks out on ring road dualling plan after his party said it 'should be scrapped' THE city council's executive member for transport has welcomed the York outer ring road dualling plans as
Bucks Free Press
- LETTERS: 'Dangerous roads? Maybe it's the drivers at fault instead'This is what you have been writing to us about this week.
New Civil Engineer
- Video released of proposed £228M trans-Pennine bypass [subscription]A new video has revealed the plans behind a proposed £228M bypass to take traffic away from the village of Mottram in Longdendale.
- Environmentalists oppose ‘picnic spot’ on Gloucestershire road schemeTransport Action Network has called out Highway’s England’s plans to incorporate a “picnic spot” on a proposed crossing over the A417 road in Gloucestershire.
- Stonehenge Tunnel | Planning Inspectorate advised against scheme due to heritage concernsThe planning inspectorate recommended that transport secretary Grant Shapps should withhold consent for the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel scheme due to the impact it would have on the World Heritage Site (WHS).
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- Private financing pays for £550m Heads of the Valleys sectionThe Welsh Government has awarded a major road widening contract, which will use private finance and is estimated to be worth more than half a billion pounds.
- UK set to move petrol and diesel ban forward to 2030 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to move the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars forward to 2030, as part of a raft of new policy announcements to drive the UK towards its net-zero target.
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