[jambutty]

The new Transport Minister has set aside £10m to encourage industry to come up with a system whereby we motorists can be charged by the mile to counter congestion.

Is this man for real?

There is only one of two ways to counter traffic congestion. Build more roads or restrict car ownership neither of which would be acceptable.

Where it all went wrong was back in the sixties when we working classes could afford to buy cars and of course the motor industry did its damnedest to sell them to us.

So this government and probably the next one and the one after that will get we peasants back where we belong – on foot and using public transport or on highly congested country lanes leaving the motorways and A class roads clear for the wealthy by the back door.

We are already taxed to the hilt with motoring charges of one sort or another and it won’t take much more before the poorest car owner will have to give up his or her car.

A congestion charge will just sped up the process.