Date published: 2009/05/07
The BBC says:
The number of lorries on UK roads has fallen dramatically, with the cut being linked to the recession, Department for Transport figures show.
The total fell 12% in the first quarter of this year on the same period in 2008, and 7% in the previous quarter.
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Overall traffic levels fell 3.5% year-on-year in the first three months of 2009, with motorway traffic down 5%.
It is obvious that transportation levels are closely correlated with economic activity, so this reduction in traffic is hardly surprising. Of course in turn this means a reduction in the amount of money that government extorts from motorists in the guise of the petrol tax ("fuel duty"), which is perhaps why the government has decided to again increase the tax rate at above the rate of inflation (the government being addicted to the idea that motorists for some reason should hand over billions of pounds each year to non-motorists).
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