The DFT pushed out a consultation for The Road User Charging Scheme. How many actually knew about it? This consultation has impact on every resident in the UK, so why are so many consultations being pushed through, with the get out clause ' The department was keen to receive the views of as many people as possible' to do this they provided three ways of responding, online, via email and by letter. Which is acceptable, if anyone knew about it.
I consider myself to be very up to date with developments across all Government departments, and always take part but I must have blinked and missed this one, yet as a driver trainer who uses the roads for work and as a life and executive coach who travels to clients I view this consultation to be quite important. I wonder how many other road users missed the boat? Well with 37m driving licences registered in the UK and with a huge response of 60 people, yes that's 60, I get the feeling this was a welcome level of response after all.
So if 85% of 60 which is 53 agree then no contest. It wasn't quite a whitewash, but almost, with 34 agreeing with the proposals and 18 disagreeing, which equals 52, we have to assume the other 8 found the seven questions too taxing. It seems that the toll at Dartford came up in the responses too, and that is hardly a surprise, also hardly surprising is the fact that it was outside of the scope of this consultation to deal with a charge at the crossing. So exactly what is a road user charging scheme consultation if it doesn't cover road charging?
So start saving your pennies, the brush about to sweep clean the future of the driver, will use tax payers money to install cameras, as the London congestion charge, and we had better be ready to pay to use our pot holed, uneven, congested roads.
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