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Old Dec 22nd, 2006, 05:34 PM   #1
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United-Kingdom HELP scrap the planned vehicle tracking & road pricing policy

A petition that all road users should consider signing.....so, sign away peeps...

Observer, 17/12/06

More than 40,000 people have joined a growing internet protest against government plans to introduce a national system of road pricing to cut congestion. By Friday 44,000 opponents had signed a petition posted by a campaigner on the Prime Minister's official website, dwarfing others logged on it.

The Downing Street site set up an online service for the public to send petitions to Tony Blair last month. The huge response to the road-pricing 'e-petition' in less than four weeks will raise fears that the government's most important transport policy could be scrapped if politicians believe opposition is too great. This follows closely behind a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research think-tank, which warned that less than 40 per cent of people supported road pricing.

More at Protests grow over Blair's plans for national road pricing | Travel and transport | Guardian Unlimited Environment

The petition can be found here:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy.

Please pass it on...

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