Lorry Road User Charging scheme rolled into general road pricing debate
Sat 07 May 2005
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The Lorry Road User Charging scheme is to be discontinued as a separate initiative and is to become part of the wider debate on road pricing.
Secretary of State, Alistair Darling, said in a statement: "A great deal of work has already been done on some of these issues in the development of the Lorry Road User Charging scheme. This has confirmed that a distance based charge has the potential to be a workable and practical way forward.
"But our thinking on national road pricing has developed further. We are now taking forward work on a national system of road pricing, so it is right for us to take forward the plans for distance based lorry charging as part of the wider work on national road pricing - to work for a single comprehensive, cost-effective system.
"So although the current procurement for lorry road user charging will not continue, we will continue to work with industry and ensure that we carry the full experience gained from the project into the wider work to develop a national road pricing system for cars and lorries."
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