Where next for road pricing after Greater Manchester votes No?

Is the public’s rejection of Greater Manchester’s Transport Innovation Fund package simply a local matter or does it have implications for the road pricing and wider demand management agenda nationally? Andrew Forster reports

The public’s emphatic rejection of Greater Manchester’s multi-billion pound transport investment and congestion charging package just before Christmas poses awk- ward questions not just for policy-makers in the conurbation itself but for central government and others who have advocated road pricing as a central plank of urban transport policy.

The size of the ‘No’ vote took almost everyone involved in the referendum campaign by surprise. On a turnout of just over half...

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