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  I think HMG would be better advised to first consider introducing some form of road tax on foreign trucks that use our roads free, gratis and for nothing - the same as is done in other European countries - before hitting on already beleaguered home-grown drivers.
  
  I was under the impression that toll roads didn't work as a revenue generating method, certainly if the M6 Toll is anything to go by; grossly underused and subsidised to the hilt - and does nothing to relieve the congestion on the rest of the M6. The Dartford Crossing only succeeds in causing congestion and making money for its shareholders. And they want to build another bridge??? The Severn Bridge is another farcical toll road. Because you only pay to go into Wales much of the traffic, especially freight, takes the longer route going in and only uses the bridge to escape Wales!!
  
  The other question that needs answering is whether or not we actually need any new roads, and where would we put them in any case? Upgrading the existing motorways and main trunk routes is one thing but building new roads is an entirely different matter, with one possible exception that I can think of. The M27 was originally supposed to be the South Coastal motorway running from East Kent right down into Somerset - but it was never completed, and probably never will be. It would almost certainly have relieved the M25 of a lot of the traffic heading for the west country from the south east.
  
  Then, of course, there is the building of new rail routes for the high speed services to Birmingham and beyond....!

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