Re: Declining oil traffic

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Maurie Daly wrote:

> A much better solution for Rail , rather than having more and more billions
> poured into infrastructure would be simply to abolish altogether Track Access
> Charges, after all there is no equivalent Road Access charge.
> Rail would then be maintained and funded in exactly the same way as road
> under the same agreements which currently exist.

It's high time that either the road people paid the proper amount for the use of the
road (highly unlikely considering that the road people own the government) or the rail
network is merged into the same department as the road. And funded similarly.

I note that road taxes are rising reasonably steeply in UK now that the tories are on
the opposition benches. The truckies appear not to like it - surprise surprise. Around
74% I read.

David.