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Privatise our road network? That’s going to be most people’s reaction to recent news that ministers are thinking about selling off motorways and trunk roads to private contractors.

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Welcome to the online home of the Road Users' Alliance

The Road Users’ Alliance (RUA) was formed to provide a voice for all of us who rely on the roads, whether we are travelling on foot, 2 wheels, 4 wheels or more, to get from A to B.

RUA works to dispel the myths about road transport, to encourage properly informed debate about the future of our transport system, and to make the case for a better-balanced funding approach that meets the real transport needs of the UK.

RUA presents the facts on funding in our annual publication, Road File. Road users pay 10 times more to the Treasury than the Government returns in improving the road network. It’s time for a fairer deal.

Membership is now open to individuals who would like to add their voice to RUA’s campaign.

Join us if you think it’s time to get real about road transport.

Director's Soapbox

RUA Director, Tim Green The budget announcement that fuel duty would only be increased by 1p per litre (plus VAT of course, and only for a few months before the next rise kicks in), implied that road users should somehow be grateful for this moderation.

However, with petrol prices at an all-time high - despite the cost of crude being lower than than the last peak (when oil was trading at $147 per barrel) - motorists will not be feeling much in the way of gratitude.

UK fuel taxes are back at the top in EU and World terms. The road network is clogged and pot-holed roads are causing expensive repair bills.

What a rip-off!

What is the solution?

If firms are to trade us back to solvency and salvage the pound so it can buy more dollars to fund crude oil purchases, a decent road network is the pre-requisite for the generation and distribution of wealth.

Hot topics

Hot Topics

RUA Director Tim Green’s latest sound-off, plus a selection of recent news and comment, and the current results of our on-line poll.

If there is a burning issue you think we should be highlighting, please let us know by using the email form below

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Fact Finder

The UK has nearly 8,000 cars per motorway kilometre
that's more than double the EU average.