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The RAC Foundation has claimed that drivers in the future will likely have to pay road tax by the mile.
The prediction, announced yesterday in a report on road funding, is seen by motoring’s governing body as the only way to prevent traffic gridlock and congestion on British roads according to Professor Stephen Glaister, the director of the RAC, who argued that pay-as-you-go tolls were the only credible solution to what is becoming an increasingly problematic issue.
The findings of Professor Glaister coincide with the latest Ipsos Mori poll, where 58 per cent of drivers were discovered to agree in principle on […]

The RAC Report on Motoring for 2010 has been released, with claims that British drivers have become more ‘inward looking’.
The annual report made the claim after sampling 1150 British motorists, discovering that they cared less about global issues than they did over the condition of local roads and the behaviour of fellow motorists.
Of those polled, 96 per cent claimed that they were concerned by the ongoing use of mobile phones by drivers, with a further 97 per cent claiming that drugged or drunk drivers were also a worry. 88 per cent said they believed that the state of local roads […]

Emirates’ vice president of recruitment, Rick Helliwell, has reportedly said that the airline aims to double its number of employees over the next decade. Being quoted in The National, Mr Helliwell added that it had taken 25 years to build a staff of 40,000 and that more realistically, over the next 10 years, the airline will need to take on a further 60,000 to factor in those who will move on from the carrier and retire.
As well as Emirates dramatically increasing its workforce, The National said that Etihad Airways would also have to heavily recruit over the next decade to […]

An Air France jet forced to make an emergency landing after a report was received that there was an explosive device on board, has been allowed to continue on its journey. Flight 443 was approximately half-and-hour into its journey from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, when an anonymous female voice called Rio International to say that there was a bomb on board.
According to a spokesman for Air France, the jet was then contacted by Air Traffic Control and the decision was made that the aircraft should land in Recife, a city in the northeast of the country. The plane landed […]

Motoring group the RAC has announced that the only way in which congestion and grid-lock on Britain’s roads can be cut is by introducing a by-the-mile road tax. In a new road-funding report, Professor Stephen Glaister, the RAC’s director, claims that the way to cut traffic is by imposing a pay-as-you-go toll on all roads.
The […]