Traffic - Is it actually in the treasury's interest to sort?

[buckeroodle]

I was giving this some thought during the usual commute from near Fareham to Southampton this morning, I'm sure I can remember whispers that the previous establishment were supposedly doing anything but, to fix the traffic, as more congestion encouraged people to get out of their cars and into public transport.... I now believe this sort of passive underhanded tactic to be true. I mean why would they care about us?

So, currently petrol prices are biblically high, so high that if they ever get to £2 a litre I'm emigrating, my mate said the same thing if it ever hit a £1, he now resides in Australia and has been for a while sadly.

so back to my point, congestion, screws your fuel economy, so you have to fill up more often, and if that happens we're lining the treasury's pockets all the time, I swear, each time politicians hear of huge tailbacks on our road systems, all they must see is money!

Am I mad? probably, but is there some sense in my thoughts??

I'm sure someone here will tell me not only that I'm wrong, but there is another thread already started, I've posted in the wrong place and I've got umpteenmillion grammar and spelling mistakes. be nice I'm still new here

[EDLT]

Public transport is still subsidised in one way or another, if we all gave up driving the treasury would lose an enormous amount of money (and the public transport system will collapse).

[Ed.]

The scrapping of the Dartford bridge toll was held off for that very reason, years after the bridge had been paid for.