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Aneirin -> RE: Rothschilds: UK should privatize motorway (5/26/2010 6:41:02 AM)
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I have used only one toll road, a bit of motorway that avoides the disaster where the M6 meets the M5 and the M40 and whatever other road pour into that well known disaster area. It cost me £1.50, but boy was it worth it, open road at last resulting in less stress, risk of collision and obviously less pollutants from a car that is not engaged in stop start living on the brakes type driving, the type that often leads to collisions. In that area, collision and the resulting bottlenecks are a common occurrence, as are the inevitable and constant road works with miles of coned off areas with nothing much happening.
But motorways, I believe the public purse paid for them, therefore they cannot be sold off to a buyer who wished to charge us for using them, if they are sold, then they are being sold by persons who do not own them. If toll roads do for whatever reason become the norm, then there are always alternatives to motorways and often those alternatives are a much more interesting drive.
As to those who argue other routes should not be used n lieu of motorways, what they have to understand, is that a road that runs from point A to point B is not there for the hell of it, it is a viable route for the purpose of vehicular travel, therefore I am one who is against this notion of the so called rat run.
Of course the usual complaint with alternative to motorways is the use of excessive speed, but that can be tackled, congestion on alternative routes, well it's a road, and if it is used, it can be subject to both congestion and the open road scenario.
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