Are politicians ready for Glaister’s big picture reforms to roads?

RAC Foundation director Stephen Glaister has a plan for roads that, he says, would cut congestion and raise much-needed revenue for road improvements.

With the public finances in such dire straits, now may be a good time to interest politicians in big ideas. And, boy, has Stephen Glaister got one. The RAC Foundation director is currently working up a plan for the pricing and administration of the road network that could raise bucketloads of extra cash for road investment, potentially raise billions for general Government coffers – and cut traffic congestion to boot. The reforms would be the roads equivalent of rail privatisation in the...

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