Is Road Pricing on its Way?

We already have a tracker based insurance policy with our car at 2.8 pence per mile on top of the basic £145 per year ,it has with our annual mileage worked out much cheaper for us

Not yet available for PVC or motor caravans

The road pricing idea has to be the best way of recouping the loss of income from "Free" use of roads by some vehicles

I would welcome road pricing just as long as the revenue is actually re-invested in maintaining the UK road network, which is in an appalling state currently and has been for some years.

The current model of zero RFL for some EVs is unsustainable in the long term - IMHO a charge per mile is much fairer.

It would be much simpler if we returned to the idea that all cars paid a RFL, electric cars being given a discount.

Tracker based charging just seems far too complicated.

 

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Works fine on our car

Also seems to work on parcel deliveries 

Currently VED is charged by how much the vehicle pollutes via their emissions. Technically EV's don't have emissions in the same sense of the word which would suggest there would have to be a flat rate if you continued with some sort of annual charge. The advantage of road pricing is that it can used for many purposes. It could be used to control congestion by charging more on congested roads, even if that was only a certain times of the day. Would there be a need for separate clean ait zones or could the charging for those be incorporated into road charging? Would road charging actually need to apply to all roads, or could it just apply to inner city and busy trunk routes. There are many options. I think the RAC suggested that a road charging scheme should have a neutral cost to road users rather than being used as an extra revenue raising opportunity. We will have to wait and see how that works out!!!

David

I’m slightly nervous about technology based systems, there’s always some criminal element out there who will one step ahead and exploit it. I remember when the London congestion charge was introduced I regularly used to get a fine for a car bearing my reg plate, but had never visited London. Luckily they didn’t match my registration to the same model & colour of car! I realise tracker based systems are more sophisticated than that, but they can probably be hacked and cloned.

What could they gain from it & how🤷🏻‍♂️🤔

What could they gain from it and how  ??

About 60 quid a pothole, levied on car repairers, that's how much ( at least ! ) and how !

ICE vehicles already pay a 'pollution' penalty via fuel duty. The present RFL just needs tweaking. I'm not opposed to a 'pay by mile' though.