{"id":321,"date":"2007-10-25T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-10-25T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T11:57:54","slug":"uk-gov-transport-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/uk-gov-transport-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Gov Transport Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Ruth Kelly has come out and said that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7061188.stm\">current scheme to use of the hard shoulder on the M42 as a running lane is to be extended<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t agree with this policy, preferring to see money spent on properly widening the motorway or actually improving alternative transport, one part of this news item strikes me as odd: none of the proposed extensions of this policy will (thankfully) occur north of the Birmingham conurbation.<\/p>\n<p>From this, you should surmise that these are the congestion hotspots that the government has identified to be targeted. If so, why is Manchester being targeted with a congestion tax and these are not?<\/p>\n<p>Before anyone points out that the Manchester Tax is <em>inside <\/em>the M60, I experience <strong>zero <\/strong>congestion inside the M60, but heavy congestion on the M61 and M60 around Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Ruth Kelly has come out and said that the current scheme to use of the hard shoulder on the M42 as a running lane is to be extended. While I don&#8217;t agree with this policy, preferring to see money spent on properly widening the motorway or actually improving alternative transport, one part of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,14,20,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}