The report appears to have been written as if there had been a startegic environmental assessment or equivalent that showed road pricing to be a \'better\' neans of demand management than lower national speed limits, parking levies or fuel tax escalator. In fact no such work has been carrioed out although a 50mph speed limit (where is the VIBAT report in the references? or the UKERC Quick Wins? or Plowden and Hillman 1996?) is immediately available, is low tech, completely equitable, unintrusive, would reduce carbon and congestion, trigger power shift and modal shift. Road pricing has few of these advantages and is not part of a virtuous circle that would reduce carbon. A report that omits the lower speed limit alternative lacks credibility.
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