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Richard Turner, Chief Exec of the Freight Transport Association, was on the Today programme this morning and described road user charging for all users on all roads as "inevitable" in order to manage demand. Useful words on the surface, but at the same time he advocated increasing capacity on the current interurban road network. Call us Machiavellian, but by raising the profile of the "all users pay on all roads" system, was his real motivation to distract from the far more likely first step of lorry road user charging? What better delaying tactic than to encourage an anti charging campaign in the tabloids?