How can we best take account of the differing accessibility needs of urban and rural communities?
Those living and working in rural areas are likely to continue to be dependent on private transport. The vehicle taxation system can differentiate between vehicle owners in this respect as far as cost of ownership goes. Although a fuel tax is easy to impose it is blind to whether the fuel is used in rural or urban areas. It is better to tax use of cars either by car user charges related to actual use as discussed above or by imposing an annual charges for using, say, the motorway network. here may be a case for some form of windscreen sticker system allowing rural dwellers who do not work in an urban area to access their most convenient urban area without undue financial penalty if there is no practical form of public transport available to them. The easy and cheap mobility afforded by the car and by the massive road building programme since the 1950s has seen a vast increase in longer distance car commuting which has spread urban sprawl into country areas and brought all the undesirab
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