Plans to build the UK's first toll road in more than a decade are to be dropped, it has been reported.
The planned improvements to the A14 will instead be funded from general taxation, the Financial Times said.
The proposed roll road is part of a scheme to alleviate heavy congestion by widening a 25-mile stretch of the A14 in East Anglia.
The plan had originally been to raise around 20 per cent of the overall £1.5bn cost from tolls, with a consultation suggesting drivers could be charged between £1 and £1.50 to use the road. This would have made the A14 the first new toll route in the UK since the M6 Toll opened back in 2003.
PM David Cameron raised the issue in last week's commons question time, saying: "I am well aware of the strong feelings in Suffolk about this issue and I have been approached about it by many Members of Parliament.
"I believe that road tolls can play an important part in providing new road capacity and it is important that we find ways to pay for road capacity, but I also understand the concerns about this individual case."
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