The congestion charge is a bit of a piss take to rip off the motorist. The motorist already gets taxed enough in petrol/diesel charges. They have to pay road tax that never gets spent on improving the roads (not down my way anyway), and also have to put up with the poor motoring standards of the dreaded BMW driver.
I can see that it is a way to keep traffic off the streets. However the only solution is to cut train and tube fares and get the donut eaters off their backsides and learn to walk around again.
Get the tubes working better and cheaper. Some friends of mine went to New York over Christmas. The tubes ran on Christmas Day! We are becoming a 24 hour society in London and the bigger cities of the UK. Can anyone tell me why the tube shuts 12-12:30am. Well its supposed to aide cleaning and have track repairs. It doesn't impact our foreign brothers and sisters when their tubes are cleaned and repaired. They still run.
Providing a better and more frequent service must be the way forward. Have the kids walk to school - lets get the scumbags off the streets that will stop the kids walking to school. The innocent people shouldn't have to fear walking around their own neighbourhoods, getting raped, stabbed or molested by scumbags that shouldn't be on the streets anyway.
Can anyone tell me if this congestion charge really gets used to to do any of the above, because is is a shed load of cash collected here, and recently I haven't noticed a change in traffic. Now the last lot of statistics that were published say its reduced. What I know is that traffic speeds have definitely gotten slower. My way of thinking is that this is a result of more cars.
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