On May 18, 7:08 pm, %ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
> mark  wrote:
> > oh, alright... go on then... I'll bite.
>
> It will be a waste of your time.
>
> > Give us the archived link and I'll go read it to see how inaccurate it
> > might, or might not,  be....
>
> That's going to be a rare event if "ken" ever manages to post a link
> that proves his claims. All you will get is more "stansareason dunnit"
> crap from him.
>
> His claim that the work is "the infrastructure required for tolling" is
> drivel. The work that has been done is an upgrade to outdated
> communications links in order to transfer operations from the police
> control centre to the HA regional control centre. Associated with that
> change has been an upgrade in the standard of signalling and signing,
> road widening, junction improvements and new SOS telephones.
>
> The infrastructure may be used for tolling but to claim that it was
> necessary or introduced only for that reason is bunkum. As stated ad
> nauseam, the reports on road tolling on the M27 prepared by TRL indicate
> that it's not a good place to introduce road tolling. Road tolling for
> the M3 has already been excluded by the SoS for Transport. There has not
> yet been any definitive announcement on road tolling for the M27 one way
> or the other.
>
> However the fact that "ken" claimed that road tolling was being
> introduced five years ago, and that the changes introduced then were
> "infrastructure for road tolling" shows how reliable he is.

If the tolling infrastruture changes have indeed been made for an
entirely different purpose, then why on earth is there no information
relating to this anywhere on the net? These changes required
expenditure of a considerable amount of public money, and surely the
purpose for them should be made clear to those paying the cost?

Its simply not good enough that there is no proper records concerning
how public money is used, and bent MPs ripping off a few million a
year is I feel very much the tip of the iceberg!

The biggest scams here in the UK currently have to do with things like
PFI and construction (such as the M27 toll upgrades), and if accurate
information aout these things ever came out, the public outcry about
the bent MPs would seem very tame in comparision to that relating to
scams which involve billions of pounds of public money................

But in terms of gullibility most people here in the UK feel
comfortable with accepting the utter drivel generated by types such as
"Steve Firth", so unless the corporate media decides to bite off the
hand thats feeding it, then the really big scams are not likely to
ever see the light of day!

k