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Article: Road pricing still an option says Darling.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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BRITAIN will one day need to consider introducing a national road pricing scheme, the Chancellor has insisted.
In an interview with The Birmingham Mail, Alistair Darling dismissed reports that ministers had decided against road pricing following an outpouring of opposition.
Councils in the West Midlands region turned down proposals to introduce a pilot road pricing scheme in return for massive Government investment in public transport earlier this year.
Their decision gave Greater Manchester authorities a clear run to put forward their own proposals and to receive pounds 1.5 billion in funding for public transport, along with permission to borrow pounds 1.5 ...