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ROAD TOLL DEVICES TO BE TESTED NEXT YEAR



Drivers could pay up to £1.30 a mile
Toll proposals have proved unpopular
Road-pricing is to take a step closer next year with hundreds of drivers being recruited to test toll devices. The trials are due to start in early 2009 and if successful could mean charges of up to £1.30 a mile on the most congested roads.

Volunteers will have satellite-tracking devices fitted to their cars in four different UK locations. The drivers will have a dummy account set up in their names and money will be deducted from it when they enter a toll area. Theoretically the devices could be used to monitor a drivers speed, but ministers claim they will not be used for this purpose.
Paul Clark, the Transport Minister, confirmed yesterday that the trials will start despite previous indications that the Government has given up on the unpopular road pricing scheme. A feasibility study in 2004 found that the highest rate of £1.3o would only be paid by 0.5% of traffic. The on-board unit could also be used to deduct other fees such as congestion charging and drivers would get a single bill online.
A DfT document reportedly issued to the companies conducting the trials states: 'We need to explore how we might move to a different way of paying for road use: it is clear that any form of road pricing would be more effective if it could target congestion by charging on the basis of when and where a journey is being made.'
Mr Clark said: ‘Nobody will thank us if, as a Government, we do not look at every option. Any form of road pricing must address people’s concerns around fairness and privacy. If we sit back and do nothing you can be sure that economic growth will lead to gridlock.’

Eddie