Submitted on Friday 20th March 2020
Rejected on Monday 20th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Suspend all tolls because of the COVID19 crisis
The Government should suspend all road tolls, river crossing tolls and 'congestion charges' for at least 12 months because of the Coronavirus COCVD19 epidemic.
Where this needs additional powers then they should be sought from Parliament.
1. Tolls are unfair and arbitrary in where and how they are applied. They are an inefficient way of charging for the use of roads and can increase congestion and pollution.
2. In the current crisis it is important to give the economy some relief and this can be done at a relatively low cost by suspending tolls. This has already happened in China.
3. A lot of people that the UK need to carry on working are increasingly likely to have to travel to work by their own transport.
4. Many tolls are wholly or partly cash tolls. There is a relatively high risk of spreading disease because there is a quick turn around of the cash.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The setting of bridge and road tolls, and congestion charges, is the responsibility of local authorities in most cases and private owners in others, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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