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Grants support 15% of rail freight flows

Philippa Edmunds, Freight on Rail manager, Campaign for Better Transport, London
28 July 2014
 

Only around 15 per cent of rail freight flows receive any grant support (‘Rail freight subsidies are still justified says lorry cost review’ 11 July). That is why it remains extremely difficult for rail to compete with road freight, which is currently paying less than 40 per cent of the costs it imposes on society in terms of road congestion, pollution, road damage and road collisions.

Worryingly, as a result of this economic distortion, caused by a lack of internalisation of HGV...

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