ABSTRACT
Since 2004 policy-makers have been occupied with delivering updated versions of the modally specific programmes conceived in the Ten Year Plan and with reforming failed institutional arrangements for the national railways and for transport in major urban areas legislated for in the Transport Act 2000. The main additional – and highly troublesome – item has been the proposal for national road user charging first floated in 2003 and a core feature of the 2004 White Paper.
