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Amsterdam drops road pricing trial

Wednesday 09 June 2010

Amsterdam city council has abandoned plans to experiment with an extra tax on rush hour motoring because there is not enough support for the plan.

Plans to introduce a kilometre tax nationwide collapsed when the cabinet fell, but the Amsterdam trials were set to continue.

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I wonder how much money has already been squandered on this worthless trial.

Perhaps it would have been better spent on that Metro project which need not be named..

By Chris | June 9, 2010 12:51 PM

All the friends of the establishment have received their maximum revenues from the consulting work on this "pay as you drive" lost cause, so let's bury it. Meanwhile the increase in road tax which served to fund it remains in place...

By Vogon Poet | June 9, 2010 5:34 PM

We want CAR FREE ROADS in the city, not faster roads for rich drivers.

By jan | June 10, 2010 10:11 AM

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