Why you should sign our tolls petition (From Wirral Globe)

Why you should sign our tolls petition

2:39pm Tuesday 13th February 2007 in Letters

JOHN Roberts asks Globe readers not to sign our petition to the Prime Minister (Mailbox, January 31).

He says that if tolls are scrapped it will cause untold damage' to the railway and that train jobs will be lost.

The people who use the train service on Merseyside are subsidised to the extent of about £100 million a year from taxes. Road users in Britain are not subsidised - they pay about £1,000 million a week in road taxes and get little back.

The Government and others want to tighten the screw on road users even further and it has just been announced that Manchester plans to introduce congestion charges' which could be up to £8 a day.

The Merseyside districts want to do something similar, but so far the Government has not given them any money for drawing up plans.

We believe that all these charges are unfair and damage the economy in the areas that are closest to the tolls.

If Globe readers agree with us, we ask that they sign the petition asking the PM to scrap all existing and planned tolls, road pricing' and congestion charging'. The petition is at: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notolls As John Roberts wants tolls kept, perhaps he can start a petition to that effect?

Dave Loudon, ChairmanMersey Tunnels Users' Associationwww.tunnelusers.org.uk