On the face of it, when it comes to the roads, Pay as You Go is not a phrase to be mentioned in polite company. It is guaranteed to raise the ire of motorists across the nation. After all, didn’t almost two million people sign a Downing Street petition against road pricing back in 2007? And didn’t that petition result in road pricing being dropped as official policy by the Labour Government? Read more...
Almost unnoticed, the railways are enjoying an investment boom. Major projects, such as Crossrail, Thameslink and the East London Line extension are under construction while electrification of the Great Western line to Bristol and South Wales and the Liverpool to Manchester route has been promised. There is even talk of building a North to South high-speed line but that will take years to even get on to the drawing board, although the idea has cross-party support. 
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