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Craig HillTraffic Tax in the City
July 6th 2006 05:55
They are at it again, finding ways to tax motorists as much as they can. In an article by Drive.com that can be found here, 'experts' are proposing that a traffic tax in the city will do us good.
What the traffic tax proposes is that motorists will be charged a toll when they enter the Sydney CBD in peak hours, encouraging people to take public transport and not use their cars as much as possible. Not a bad idea? Well it wouldn't be if our public transport system was reliable and convienient. The fact that many inner west train commuters have to wait 20 minutes just for a train to the city is ridiculous! What is the point of waiting 20 minutes, having your train delayed, getting in late for work and then being charged train fares that are ever increasing when you can simply drive to work in half the time and twice the convienience!
I'd be more than happy to pay the government's tolls and taxes if they simply used it for what it came from! IE: revenue from tolls on the road should go back to improving our roads and transport system. But most of the revenue from the roads go to other things like schools and stuff like that. Not that I am against it, but it seems a bit unfair to have schools taking road taxes.
I am not suggesting a laissez faire style way of managing the taxes either, but I think there needs to be some sort of limit to where the money goes, say 75% of revenue from tolls be ploughed back into the roads - or something along those lines.
What the traffic tax proposes is that motorists will be charged a toll when they enter the Sydney CBD in peak hours, encouraging people to take public transport and not use their cars as much as possible. Not a bad idea? Well it wouldn't be if our public transport system was reliable and convienient. The fact that many inner west train commuters have to wait 20 minutes just for a train to the city is ridiculous! What is the point of waiting 20 minutes, having your train delayed, getting in late for work and then being charged train fares that are ever increasing when you can simply drive to work in half the time and twice the convienience!
I'd be more than happy to pay the government's tolls and taxes if they simply used it for what it came from! IE: revenue from tolls on the road should go back to improving our roads and transport system. But most of the revenue from the roads go to other things like schools and stuff like that. Not that I am against it, but it seems a bit unfair to have schools taking road taxes.
I am not suggesting a laissez faire style way of managing the taxes either, but I think there needs to be some sort of limit to where the money goes, say 75% of revenue from tolls be ploughed back into the roads - or something along those lines.
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Comment by natasha
meanwhile, ur tyres are odd. its like they've got huge pimples... they're going thru their adolesence.. sigh.. a wonderful time