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 No campaign was supported by many businesses in the conurbation, including Peel Holdings, owner of the Trafford shopping centre

The No campaign was supported by many businesses in the conurbation, including Peel Holdings, owner of the Trafford shopping centre

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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