DAILY EXPRESS: MOTORISTS face tolls and pay-as-you drive schemes under a radical plan for privately owned roads to be ¬unveiled today by David Cameron.
The Prime Minister will say Britain’s “second-rate” road system desperately needs a huge injection of private-sector investment.
The Treasury can no longer afford to keep funding improvements and repairs to motorways and trunk roads, he will admit.
But the plans are likely to provoke an angry response. They could add hundreds of pounds a year to the cost of motoring at a time when drivers already face soaring petrol and diesel prices and crippling fuel duties and road tax.
Motoring organisations last night warned of a backlash, claiming the move was a return to “19th century turnpikes”. » | Macer Hall | Monday, March 19, 2012
