"Eycott, George, VF UK - Technology \(TS\)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> With the Cambridge system, drivers will be a lot less tolerant of the
>> callous disregard now shown by the repairers.  You can bet this will
>> soon lead to changes in practice.
>
>Err, except that it is not the people repairing the road who are being
>charged (in fact the charges will be paying their wages) so how is that
>an incentive for them to change?

The repairers are paid by the people who hire them, i.e. the local
governments, who are run (notionally) by elected people.  If the
elected people get stick from their voters, they will hire other
repairers.

>No, I'm sorry but I think this is a non starter. You cannot charge
>people for congestion they have no control over.

You do now.  I have to sit steaming in my car (which is the current
way we all pay) when I had nothing to do with the cause of the jam.

Adrian

Adrian Stott
07956-299966

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