Congestion Charge goes to £25 in October

Sparky By far the most sensible plan I've heard is to tax petrol more heavily, and scrap road tax and congestion charges altogether.

The further you drive, the more fuel you use, the more tax you pay. Similarly, if you drive a less economical car you automatically pay more tax.

Simple, and it cuts out hundreds of bureaucratic jobs, which is probably why it will never happen.

The problem comes for people for whom there is no alternative to driving. We will have to run a full road pricing system eventually so why not get on with it. The government are just dilly dallying because they know it will be unpopular because people think it will cost them more. For many it will not.

Also a sharper rise just in fuel can have too great an effect on inflation as whole causing problems for the economy in many ways.