Congestion charging and the case of the London Sewers

As I walk into town I past the queues of traffic that are heading in the same direction, the main road is probably about a mile and it is not uncommon for me to arrive at the end of the road well before the vehicles I pass at the top. Some of the drivers are wise to this and the entrance to our estate is used by some as a park and walk or park and bus scheme. But I have to wonder how when the local council eventually join the band waggon and install its first congestion charge things will be better.
We have bus and cycle lanes, which are also for the use of BMW's , Chavs, Mercedes, mothers on the school run, white vans and 4x4s. These lanes don't help to keep the traffic moving because of unauthorised users trying to push back into the main lanes causing delays and no small amount of road rage.
The transport system around here, like many other places, is a mess.
Enter the latest weapon to reduce road congestion, a Congestion Charge. Note the word "Con"
The great idea is that those of us who have registered our cars correctly will be tracked, recorded and charged to drive on the roads and this will reduce congestion and make the world a better place. Those many millions of people driving about in cars un-registered will simply go about the roads for free.
Reports I saw say that about £53 billion is made from vehicles each year and £7 billion is returned in some way back to transport, which leaves me wondering where the rest goes.
We are told in order to stop us driving we need to pay more and that will save the planet.

In London for many hundreds of years there was a problem with the sewage; sewage originally from a word meaning sea wards where it was ultimately heading.
The sewage in London was causing deaths, illnesses, very unsavory conditions and a generally nasty pong about the place.
It took years before a solution was found, ideas such as making people responsible for the piece of sewer flowing past their property and fining them if they failed were tried but had little impact. Sewers were little more than a gully flowing along the streets and places where cesspools from under houses could empty into.
With today's system of dealing with things the solution to streets full of human poo is simple, tax people for having a crap. Obvious that will solve it, won't it?
Yes you can take the tax you collect and spend it on other things so everyone wins, the sewage will be gone and the government will be rich. But hang on, unless the entire population becomes constipated there is just a chance that the roads will still be flowing with poo.

No, hang on, I don't think I have totally lost the plot, well not yet. I think that today's roads are a bit like the sewers in London back before the Victorians took control. No amount of tax or responsibility on the people solved the problem. It was only solved when they had the sense to build new big, underground, sewers.
Roads today are the congested overflowing sewer of pre 1844 London. The way to solve the problems is not more tax and congestion charges trying to remove people from the roads, what is needed is new roads, more bypasses, more motorways and more investment. After all there is £46 billion pounds a year "unspent money" collected from motorists.