London congestion charge rises again

safrane

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See the congregation charge is up again; now to £15.00 7 days a week 07:00 - 21:00.

Apparently to save TFL and as part of their bail out conditions.

Oh well its only Londeners.
 
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This should help guarantee that central London s roads are reserved for those that need to use them. I.E the super rich with their Lamborghini Aventador s for whom £15.00 is irrelevant and a spec in the ocean if it keeps the peasants of the roads! After all those peasants that travel in to serve these super rich are easily replaced if they fall ill with Covid from traveling on overcrowded public transport!?!?!?!? The adage "there's plenty more where they came from" springs to mind!!!!
Put seriously now, another knee jerk reaction by this lousy London Mayor, with the best bit being- from 22nd June it becomes a seven day a week charge!!! DISGUSTING!!!
 
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Come now guys , poor Sadiq only spent 22 million last year on .............art ..........3 years of Brexit and trump balloons and this idiot wants to spent 22 million on art , Him and his advisors want charging with First degree murder reducing the number of tubes and busses plainly at the wrong time , he was advised not to do it , vote with your feet peeps and get the burger out
 
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Loz - some good knowledge there, i wasn't aware of that.

This all seems highly politicised.

The Government set out what they wanted as part of their bailout (i.e. Govt made the decision over increases to Congestion Charge as a condition to the congestion charge) and the Mayor had no choice to accept as no other bailouts were possible.

The Government have clearly: (i) given him a choice that they know will be unpopular; and (ii) publicised and smashed him in the press with this.

I don't know how much is normal to spend on "art" each year. The Tube regularly commission posters, poems etc. As well as its textiles for new carriages/new lines - its all designed. It's part of the fabric of the Tube and I've quite liked it over the years. It certainly makes our Tube network a nicer place to be then say the Metro in Paris. If he's spent double what is normal, then fair enough. I just don't know what normal is, and whether this year there were additional items that required spending money on.

Sadiq hasn't seemed to be making the expensive or embarrassing trips abroad that Red-Ken/Boris had made.

I preferred him massively to Zac Goldsmith who I thought to be a trust-fund lunatic and entirely detached from reality. I doubt he'd ever been on a tube, or got to grips with the variety of cultures that make up London.

I still think Sadiq will still win when the next election. Although the person the Tories have put up against Sadiq seems to be the antithesis to Z.Goldsmith (as Goldsmith did so badly), he also seems entirely useless at public speaking and no-one has ever heard of him. If you look up Shaun Bailey on YouTube, I doubt you would find him impressive.
 
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rossyl said:
Loz - some good knowledge there, i wasn't aware of that.

This all seems highly politicised.

The Government set out what they wanted as part of their bailout (i.e. Govt made the decision over increases to Congestion Charge as a condition to the congestion charge) and the Mayor had no choice to accept as no other bailouts were possible.

The Government have clearly: (i) given him a choice that they know will be unpopular; and (ii) publicised and smashed him in the press with this.

I don't know how much is normal to spend on "art" each year. The Tube regularly commission posters, poems etc. As well as its textiles for new carriages/new lines - its all designed. It's part of the fabric of the Tube and I've quite liked it over the years. It certainly makes our Tube network a nicer place to be then say the Metro in Paris. If he's spent double what is normal, then fair enough. I just don't know what normal is, and whether this year there were additional items that required spending money on.

Sadiq hasn't seemed to be making the expensive or embarrassing trips abroad that Red-Ken/Boris had made.

I preferred him massively to Zac Goldsmith who I thought to be a trust-fund lunatic and entirely detached from reality. I doubt he'd ever been on a tube, or got to grips with the variety of cultures that make up London.

I still think Sadiq will still win when the next election. Although the person the Tories have put up against Sadiq seems to be the antithesis to Z.Goldsmith (as Goldsmith did so badly), he also seems entirely useless at public speaking and no-one has ever heard of him. If you look up Shaun Bailey on YouTube, I doubt you would find him impressive.
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Personal view now.... I think Sadiq Kahn is probably the worst thing to ever happen to London in recent times. Never accepts responsibility for anything and when the going gets tough he just passes the buck onto the Govt and blames them. He gets paid a lot of money for doing the job so its high time the guy stood up to his responsibilities, or stood down and make way for someone who is more effective. Just my view.
 
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Correction 06.00 to 22.00 x 7 days a week! Bang goes me doing my central inspections on a Saturday, may as well congest town on a week day!
 
lozcb

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Silvercat said:
Personal view now.... I think Sadiq Kahn is probably the worst thing to ever happen to London in recent times. Never accepts responsibility for anything and when the going gets tough he just passes the buck onto the Govt and blames them. He gets paid a lot of money for doing the job so its high time the guy stood up to his responsibilities, or stood down and make way for someone who is more effective. Just my view.
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Lozzer

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All this Sadiq bashing is verging on, well ya know, multiculturalism works! Errm no I don't think it does....there ,catch that elephant in the room....
 
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Lozzer said:
All this Sadiq bashing is verging on, well ya know, multiculturalism works! Errm no I don't think it does....there ,catch that elephant in the room....
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Not a single iota of woke in me Lozzer, happy to call a spade a spade , or a fork a fork when its due , he needs a **** site more than his wings clipping in my view and i rarely go into town especially as he earns a **** site more than the priminister
 
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