Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Privatisation consider road, charity urges

Road privatization could funding for new roads and better maintenance and management of the existing network according to the road of the RAC Foundation charity.

Its Director, Professor Stephen Gleister, has in the calls for the Government to consider selling off highway roads and motorway network in a similar way to the privatization of water and gas networks connected.

He argued that the privatisation of the Highways Agency report - would estimated at ?85 billions of a recent RAC Foundation roads – with air and rail travel in accordance to bring and greater regulation to ensure road.

In a report earlier this month think tank Road proposed reform privatization as a way to cash in Britain's "infrastructure deficit" inject, and for a common controller of transport to monitor all sectors called.

The group said that streets his could show "highly profitable" on so-called 'shadow tolls' - where the Government based a toll road operator pays at the level of users - as a potential way forward.

Reform would also suggested that sold sections of the road or to private companies, the incentives, the road to a good standard for higher fees - a system with the M6 toll seen justify road maintain could be rented.

Professor Stephen Gleister said Admiral news that privatization was only one of many options but would mean street would users a clearer link between the fees you numbers and output on the streets to see.

"In essence the problem that we see is responsible for revenue the Government of automobile clubs taxation takes."

"There is no connection between what the Treasury is on the one hand, and what the Government spends, on the other."

Professor Gleister insisted that any privatization proposal on its own merits must be assessed.

"The test is: does this proposal to offer a better road network?" he added.


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