Tony Blair's reply to congestion charging petition

[Danny]

not to mention all the money given to the illegal immigrants that could have gone to so many better places

Like the "Mod Danny's Omega" fund

[MikeDundee]

Typical as usual, same old fob off sh**, and why bother, well I know who I won't be voting for

[MaxV6]

it's also got some rather hyped figures ...

typical cost of building new motorway is NOT 30 million per mile.

in the early 90's it was in the order of a million pounds per mile per side.

even allowing for inflation to have doubled it... it's still only 4 million per mile tops.

Between other things, I did a stint as a QA engineer, On the M40 , it was my Job to tell the contractor to rip up the last 1/2 mile of road as the sub-base strata didn't meet lab test specs...  or dig up and re-fill the back fill to a bridge base....  as it's tested core fill materials compaction results weren't in spec....  and so on.....   the costs were very very thoroughly explained to us...   with the strongly supported implication that our testes would be worn as garters if we stuffed up the tests and made the contractor spend money and time pointlessly.

So he's polishing turds to frighten the punter.

Tony B Liar.

I never voted for him and never would...    and the bloody tories are no better.

why the hell everyone doesn't wake up, smell the roses and  vote Lib Dem I have NO idea.....  

[JamesV6CDX]

'Congestion is predicted to increase by 25% by 2015. This is being driven by economic prosperity. There are 6 million more vehicles on the road now than in 1997, and predictions are that this trend will continue. '

I'm not racist but if the Labour government stopped letting so many asylum seekers and immigrants in the country over the last 10 years (most of who haven't got a scooby how to drive properly over here anyway!!) perhaps we wouldn't  have had this problem in the first place :-?

WELL SAID THAT MAN!

[ClarCE]

typical cost of building new motorway is NOT 30 million per mile.

Yep, when they built Newbury bypass it was a million a mile - 11 miles and 11 mill later we had a nice new road to burn up and down, and then a year later they closed it to resurface as they used some wrong stuff which was causing it to break up - coming back to the cheapest bidder / worst quality thing..

Getting it right in the 1st place would certainly have saved a few quid

[TheBoy]

typical cost of building new motorway is NOT 30 million per mile.

Yep, when they built Newbury bypass it was a million a mile - 11 miles and 11 mill later we had a nice new road to burn up and down, and then a year later they closed it to resurface as they used some wrong stuff which was causing it to break up - coming back to the cheapest bidder / worst quality thing..

Getting it right in the 1st place would certainly have saved a few quid

And Newbury was expensive due to the hassles caused by the tree hugging hippies...

[omegaV6CD]

I could dramatically reduce motoway traffic by simply implementing few rules. Remove the rediculusly stupid speed limiter in HGV's or allow extra MPH overtake allowance. Implement penalties for people driving on the motorway a car with less than 60MPH and ban all the white vans. Do sanity check when putting 30mph limit on roadworks is it really needed?
I read some peoples comments about democracy, unfortunately there is no place in the world that is democratic. Democracy nowdays in the way that it is implemented universally is a mild dictatorship.

[Nickbat]

why the hell everyone doesn't wake up, smell the roses and  vote Lib Dem I have NO idea.....  

Because they're more pro-EU than any other party and probably more anti-car than any other party.

[Ken T]

And their not widening the M62. They're narrowing the lanes/using the hard shoulder to create another lane, which will be for the use of cars carrying passengers. Time to get the inflatable women out