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Hoon: UK is 'long way short' of national road-charging

01 June 2009

 

Road-charging is stuck in the slow lane

Britain is “a long way short” of adopting a national system of charging for road use, the transport secretary said in a strikingly downbeat assessment of the policy’s prospects.

Geoff Hoon said in an interview with the Financial Times that he wanted to see evidence of the practicality of road-charging schemes – which have been government policy since 2004 – before pressing ahead...

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