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What the MSM fails to mention here, and what should concern us FReepers is the unholy alliance that's now taking place between rich people who want the "little people" off of the road, and the environmentalists that want "everybody" off of the road, but are willing to settle for the "little people" as a starting point.

The end product of this system is gigantic, searchable, database that will have every vehicle's movements tracked for years, and will have the ability to toll people based on where they drive and when the drive. Since the government owns most streets (at least now), they will then have the power to "encourage" us to drive where they want, when they want...and, I'm sorry to say, lots of Republicans will jump on board (as CATO and Heritage already have), under the misguided assumption that government control over when and where we drive somehow amounts to using "market forces" to keep streets clear of congestion.

Luckily I'm old enough and rich enough not to be affected, but I still care.

There's an easy way to keep streets generally free of congestion. It doesn't involve taxing drivers who prefer to drive home immediately after work rather than waiting a few hours for the tolls to decrease to an affordable level. This even easier method of controlling congestion involves constructing enough infrastructure to accommodate traffic. I recognize the novelty of this concept to many liberals, but when we tried it decades ago, it actually worked, much to the chagrin of the view shed of the highly endangered (in those days) enviro-wackos.

UK is doing same thing only in the name of "security"; it's a reactive form of policing - do little proactively but study the data when something happens. A disgrace and, given the record of government IT projects there lately, likely to cost a mint.

Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by every car will be monitored