While we were away.

I'm a little late on the bandwagon, but apparently the government back in England are frantically putting in toll roads left right and centre because they've discovered how much quicker they can rape the motorist by using them. The propaganda on the M6 Toll Road site is quite blinding in it's simplistic, blinkered view. See for yourself.
I particularly like the bit about toll roads reducing traffic and journey times and thus reducing congestion in surrounding towns and villages. Clearly an idea penned by a non-driver. What do they think happens to the traffic that used to use the road? It hasn't evaporated, it's moved off into the local towns and villages, thus causing more congestion, more dangerous conditions and higher accident and fatality rates. Obviously nobody in their right mind is going to pay road tax AND road tolls, so the miracle reduction in traffic that they've experienced is because everyone's buggered off into the local streets instead.
This is mind-boggling to me, how the government, already making £38billion a year in existing taxes, can get away with introducing toll roads to take yet more money off the motorist and yet still put less than 4% of that money back into the transport infrastructure.

M6Toll reckon they average 50,311 vehicles per day. The average rate between cars, bikes and trucks, day and night works out at about £4.00 per vehicle. Motorbikes are cheaper, trucks are more expensive. That comes in at £201,244 per day or a staggering £73,454,060 a year more in pure profit to the government, or more probably, the private company set up to ringlead this wholesale rape of the motorist. It's not bad enough that every motorist is already paying an average £1600 just in taxes to use the roads (between insurance tax, road tax, petrol tax, tax on fines, fees and parking tickets), now they expect people to cough up even more money? Isn't the road tax supposed to be a tax for driving on the roads? Or is it just background noise tax now - not really paying for anything other than lining the government officials pockets with money? So now people pay a road tax, which counts for nothing, apparently. Then they have to pay tax again to use the roads they actually drive on. I...I....there's just no words to describe the brutal illegality and immorality of this scheme. And the truly truly sad thing is that people are actually paying it. Apathetic drivers are simply putting up with it. Don't you morons realise that you're paving the way for £1-per-mile road tolling? The government sees you sheep-like idiots paying to use this road and are rubbing their hands in glee, using it as an excuse to toll every road in the country. Don't pay it! Evade it any way possible! You've already paid through the nose to use the damn roads and now you're paying twice? Are you people completely and totally fucking stupid?

Lets put it like this - next time I'm back in England in a rental car, if I come across a toll road I'll be sailing through the electronic tag lane, with no tags of course (because it'll be a rental) and not paying. I'll have taken the numberplates off first though - obviously I don't want them to bill the rental company who will then bill me. God knows they bled me dry when I used to live there. I'm certainly not going to be forced to pay some "fark you in the butt" tax as a visitor.

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