No through road.

The article reports that the great advantage of having a former chief secretary to the Treasury as transport secretary is that he knows a thing or two about raising money. This week economist John MacGregor launched a debate on a scheme which could, in the medium term, turn Great Britain's motorways into money-earners by charging motorists to drive on them. The transport secretary thinks Britain needs more roads, and therefore wants to extract more money from road-users. Economists like the idea of charging motorists for the costs that traffic jams impose the environment and the community.