ROAD PRICING
02 December 2006 - Safe Speed

Fundamental question number 1

If congestion costs business £20billion per annum, Why haven''t businesses
changed their plans to save this cost? Isn''t this already a ''congestion
charge''?

Answer: They already have - as much as they can. Businesses have relocated away
from town centres for better road connections. This effect has already created
the ''M4 corridor'' and thousands of business and retail parks.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''Time is money and congestion is a cost to
business. Where businesses have been able to avoid this ''cost'' they have.
Adding to the cost with a road pricing scheme will only make a small
difference, perhaps equivalent to one year''s traffic growth.''

''It''s not only business that makes efforts to avoid congestion. Who wants to
sit in a traffic jam? We all do what we can, when we can to avoid the jams.''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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