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  • But it does mean road-pricing, which is why a lot of people will withhold their approval from this post.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2012

  • It's the same story whether the subject is road-pricing, the EU or many other maters; democracy?

    Labour and road-pricing Not a sheep 2009

  • I have blogged previously about this Labour government's desire to bring in road-pricing (most recently here and here), today I read that: Ministers are pressing ahead with a £10million trial of 'spy-in-the-sky' road-pricing technology despite widespread public opposition.

    Labour and road-pricing Not a sheep 2009

  • Staggering payments to encourage people to travel outside rush hour have been most stringently applied in Singapore, which also began the first road-pricing scheme in 1975.

    Sleep in or work from home: minister's plans to ease rush hour 2011

  • But the road-pricing petition, with almost 2 million signatories, shows that anything might happen – including a variation on the 2009 "Gordon Brown should resign" e-petition, with 70,000 votes, or one that Cameron launched the same year, vainly invoking "the power of our collective pressure" to procure an immediate general election.

    This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Not a sheep: Labour and road-pricing skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Labour and road-pricing Not a sheep 2009

  • Regularly claimed as a triumph for democracy, the road-pricing petition could equally be seen as its humiliating defeat.

    Let's all join in not signing up to this idea of e-petitions | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • And the Lib Dems are keen on replacing vehicle excise duty with some form of road-pricing in future, which would be deeply unpopular with Tory supporters.

    Coalition environment ministers: who's who 2010

  • Mr Clark said trials into road-pricing would start in the new year, with hundreds of drivers taking part in test runs.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • The Telegraph report that: Paul Clark, the Transport Minister, told a conference of road-pricing experts about plans to introduce tolls on specific lanes of motorways or hard shoulders.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008

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