Tolled off

The good people at the National Consumer Agency have objected to plans to charge motorists almost 60 per cent extra to cross the M50 when barrier-free tolling is introduced next August. The NCA has called the charge “excessive” and has accused the NRA (that’s the national roads authority and not the national rifle association for any understandably confused Americans reading this) of imposing hidden toll charges in the form of administration charges, top-up thresholds and minimum top-up amounts.