Im Doing Some Research and Basically Wanted To Ask...Do You Agree With Conjestion Charge? And Why?

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Im Doing Some Research and Basically Wanted To Ask...Do You Agree With Conjestion Charge? And Why?

Answer 1

I only visit London on Public transport / on foot. When the CC was introduced it made a visit much more pleasant - less traffic, less noise, less fumes &c. Now it's getting back to the old levels. However simply expanding the zone and jacking the charges up to £25 for some vehicles is just a political tax. It's a city, it's busy and congested. Fact of life. Just because Londoners elected a mayor who hates cars we are in danger of suppressing the heart of the capital. Motor vehicles have been on the roads for 100 years now, we depend on them. We can't abolish them at the whim of the mayor

Answer 2

If I took your car from you and then charged you £10 a day to use it, not only would it be illegal, but people would think that the idea was insane.  So why is it that Red Ken can charge us for using roads that we already own, and our road tax has paid to build and maintain?

This isn't a congestion charge, it's another stealth tax (that, let's face it, isn't even that stealthy!)

Answer 3

Yes.

If there is excessive demand for a resource and the supply cannot be increased, it makes sense to manage demand through price increases. That is what every commercial supplier does if demand goes up and they cannot get any further supplies of the product. Scarcity leads to higher prices.

There is huge demand for road space in central London and it is not practical to increase the supply of it as the buildings there are far too valuable to be demolished to make way for more roads.

In fact, given the value of rented land in central London, motorists are paying far less than the going rate for the space each occupies there.

Given the huge amount of publicity the C-charge has got, calling it a "stealth tax" is just silly. It is most certainly not being done by stealth!

Answer 4

no

as an ex courier it means my out goings went up by £40 a week what with the cost of fuel and what not it meant i was having to pay out nearly £200 a week just to work that's why it says ex courier

also small businesses in the cc zone are suffering

one of the oldest fishmongers in London finally closed it doors last year cos people weren't coming in cos of the charge

and there's hundreds more like them

Answer 5

Yes. My only problem is that it should be higher.

Reason: I never go to London by car, so why should I breathe in all the car exhaust fumes, cough splutter.

PS I rarely go to London. But its the principle.

Answer 6

I strongly agree with the congestion charge and would like to see it extended over the whole of London. Firstly the revenue from the Congestion charge has been used to vastly improve London's public transport network - modernisation of the Underground, vastly increased numbers of buses, new trains and extensions to the London Overground network. Car use in London causes unhealthy pollution and congestion; tradesmen and delivery drivers who must use cars and vans lose much of their working hours to congestion which is bad for the economy; pollution from road transport causes the epidemic of child Asthma we have in London and countless

parents driving their children rather than walking them the short distance to local schools is just plain stupid health wise and environmentally ridiculous.

Answer 7

Yes as long as it stays in London.

Answer 8

Why can't you spell?

Answer 9

Yes I agree with the Congestion Charge.

It makes a lot more people use Public Transport and/or share cars.

Answer 10

Congestion Charge= stealth tax!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

No I pay road tax petrol duty of 80% vat on fuel tax ( yes a tax on a tax) repairs and a tax on my insurance. The cry of environment is a nonsence when you listen to how much extra the gov. puts into environmental issues compared wit the extra tax collected

Answer 12

NO. If it eased congestion then maybe. BUT why pay to sit in a traffic jam?

Answer 13

It is about time someone done something about the pollution over London. In the summer I can see the car fumes over Canary Wharf. It’s like fog. The drivers who come in and out of London don’t have to live with that side of things. The clean air act should have dealt with that, but Ken did instead. The smoking Laws have gone a bit over the top. If you don’t live in London get the train of bus. If you can’t then get a job in you own town…..God Save the Queen….

Answer 14

Yes, I think it is a good idea.  It keeps traffic down (somewhat) and generates revenue for alternative means of transport.