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Drivers face £600 bill for an in-car road pricing black box
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Motorists face a potential bill of more than £600 to fit a black box
needed to make a full pay-as-you-drive road pricing system work,
Whitehall documents have revealed.

A blueprint drawn up by the Department for Transport showed it could cost
£62 billion to set up and £8.6 billion a year to run.

Every motorist could end up paying nearly £300 just to cover the expense
of collecting the charge, according to the department's feasibility
study. Details of the study emerged as the Prime Minister signalled his
intention to press ahead with road pricing in the teeth of fierce opposition.

More than 1.5 million people have signed an online petition against the
policy, which it describes as "sinister and wrong".

In a newspaper article yesterday, Mr Blair, who will be emailing everyone
who signed the petition, said: "The focus on this issue that the
e-petition has brought about will help improve our understanding of the
problems and the realisation that there are no cost-free answers."

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