{"id":19,"date":"2006-08-06T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:50:54","slug":"no-toll-roads-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/08\/no-toll-roads-please\/","title":{"rendered":"No Toll roads please, Mr Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"BBC NEWS | UK | Nationwide road tolls 'outlined'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5249538.stm\">BBC is reporting<\/a> that our esteemed transport secretary Douglas Alexander is up for national tolls on trunk roads to help &#034;combat congestion&#034;. The article makes no mention of the direct benefit to people who will start being charged even more for necessary journeys.<br \/>\nI&#039;m already paying more than enough on taxes to the government to run my car, not least on fuel and road tax itself.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing roads isn&#039;t going to stop people taking journeys that they must to get to work or to clients, it&#039;s just going to further annoy them and drain their money.<\/p>\n<p>Does the government really think people drive up and down congested motorways just for fun?<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if the millions of pounds already handed over to the government for maintenance of the roads would provide alternatives to those travelling by car every day &#8211; dare I demand better public transport? &#8211; rather than trying to come up with a reverse incentive by punishing people for using their own independence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I <em>do<\/em> think congestion is a problem. I would just really rather not be charged even more for my necessary travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that our esteemed transport secretary Douglas Alexander is up for national tolls on trunk roads to help &#034;combat congestion&#034;. The article makes no mention of the direct benefit to people who will start being charged even more for necessary journeys. I&#039;m already paying more than enough on taxes to the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[13,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}