{"id":154006364,"date":"2009-11-18T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=154006364"},"modified":"2009-11-18T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T11:32:44","slug":"per-mile-car-tax-rush-hour-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=154006364","title":{"rendered":"Per mile car tax + rush hour surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: fairly impressive benefits of the plan.]<br \/>\n[Dutch] Cabinet finalises kilometer tax plan<br \/>\nMonday 16 November 2009<br \/>\nThe Netherlands is set to become the first country in Europe to replace road tax with a kilometer charge for all motorists, over 10 years since the idea was first put forward.<br \/>\nIf the legislation is passed by parliament, motorists will start paying tax on every kilometer they drive, which the government hopes will reduce traffic jams and pollution.<br \/>\nOn Friday, ministers agreed that the tax will be three cents a kilometer when the charge is introduced in 2012, rising to 6.7 cents by 2018 &#8211; for the greenest cars . But if revenues generated by the tax are not in line with expectations, the tax can be adjusted, the transport ministry said.<br \/>\nRush hour<br \/>\nThe tax will be higher during the rush hour and for more polluting vehicles.<br \/>\nTo make sure motorists are not worse off, road tax will be scrapped and the purchase tax on new cars will be reduced. Some 60% of drivers will be better off, the government claims.<br \/>\nThe transport ministry said on Friday it expected fatal accidents will fall by 7% and carbon emissions would be down by 10%. Traffic jams will be halved and the amount of kilometres driven will go down by 15%.<br \/>\nEach car on the roads will be fitted with a GPS device which will use satellites to monitor where and when the car is driven and send the information to a central billing point.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/archives\/2009\/11\/cabinet_finalises_road_pricing.php\">https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/archives\/2009\/11\/cabinet_finalises_road_pricing.php<\/a>oldId.20091118113244572<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Baltimore Spokes: fairly impressive benefits of the plan.] [Dutch] Cabinet finalises kilometer tax plan Monday 16 November 2009 The Netherlands is set to become the first country in Europe to replace road tax with a kilometer charge for all motorists, over 10 years since the idea was first put forward. If the legislation is passed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=154006364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Per mile car tax + rush hour surcharge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154006364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154006364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154006364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154006364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154006364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154006364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154006364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}