Are you resigned to road tolls?

Three in four of us are willing to pay road tolls, if it means reductions in motoring taxes and improvements in public transport, according to a survey for the RAC.

But, ten per cent of the entire road network will need congestion charges, if we're to halt the increase in traffic, it says.

So, would you really be willing to pay each time you used your car?

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An NOP survey for the RAC found:

76% would find road tolls acceptable if there were equivalent reductions in petrol prices;

73% would find tolls acceptable if there were an equivalent reduction in road tax disc fees;

71% find tolls acceptable as a package of better roads, public transport and traffic management;

65% find tolls acceptable if there are equivalent reductions in public transport fares;

51% want the money from tolls spent on better roads and road maintenance.

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The report, Motoring Towards 2050, is produced by the campaigning arm of the RAC.

It says more roads, better public transport, longer-term local transport planning and new motoring taxes would all be needed to avoid future gridlock.

It's predicting that without constraints, demand for car travel could be 50% higher by 2031.

But, on the positive side, it believes that by 2050, a fuel cell, using compressed hydrogen gas, will become the main form of propulsion.

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