TSC outlines fears over Galileo sat nav project

15 November 2007

MPs have urged the Government to do everything in its power to prevent the Galileo satellite navigation programme from going ahead, unless a rigorous cost-benefit analysis has been produced.

The Transport Select Committee’s report on recent developments in the programme sets out the committee’s concerns about the continued merits of the project, which could pave the way for electronic road tolling.

The committee also warned about the way in which the European Commission now proposes to fund the project by transferring several billion euros from other community budgets.

Chairman of the committee, Gwyneth Dunwoody MP said: ‘What taxpayers in the UK and other European countries really need and want is better railways and roads, not giant signature projects in the sky, providing services we already have from GPS and other systems’

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