RUA highlights ‘poor return’ for motorists’ £400bn

18 October 2006

Motorists have paid £400bn in motoring taxes over the last 10 years, but have seen only a half percent increase in the road network, according to the Road Users’ Alliance (RUA).
The RUA’s latest compilation of road statistics, Road file 2006/07, claims only £7bn of the £45bn a year collected from UK motorists is re-invested in roads, while the number of cars on UK roads has increased by almost one-third over the last decade, resulting in the most jammed motorways in Europe.
Tim Green, director of the RUA, said the ageing strategic road network was ‘choking our villages and threatens to exclude whole regions of the country from the fair distribution of wealth, social and economic progress which depend on efficient transport links’.
A Treasury spokesman responded, ‘We do not recognise the £45bn figure – the cost of motoring in real terms is now cheaper than it was in 1997.’
He said the Government was committed to completing 18 motorways by 2008, adding to the 37 new motorways and major roads delivered since 2001.

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