{"id":5727,"date":"2005-06-07T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T12:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2005-06-07T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T12:59:22","slug":"road-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/06\/07\/road-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Road pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one struggling to see a positive benefit overall from a price-neutral introduction of road pricing? The arguments are pretty well documented in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4617315.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC Magazine\">this BBC article<\/a> &#8211; it seems to me that it would only move the problem, not remove it.<br \/>\nThe only way to effectively reduce car use is to make it signifcantly more expensive, but that would be so unpopular with the electorate and would also have such a negative impact on the economy that no government is ever likely to introduce such a policy. The marginal increases in costs that we&#8217;ve seen over the last couple of years as fuel costs have increased has not really had that much of an impact &#8211; it needs a substantial increase in costs to really hit home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one struggling to see a positive benefit overall from a price-neutral introduction of road pricing? The arguments are pretty well documented in this BBC article &#8211; it seems to me that it would only move the problem, not remove it. The only way to effectively reduce car use is to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}