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Robert Woolley · July 19th 03, 06:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 19 Jul 2003 16:52:01 GMT, are (Acrosticus)
wrote:

From: Dave
Date: 19/07/2003 12:53 GMT Daylight Time

Why should transport links be a factor. A borough s just a way of
administering local government.

And a very silly one at that. In many of the outer boroughs houses that face
each other across the same street and are identical in every respect attract
different amounts of council tax because the borough boundary runs right down
the middle of the road. That boundary might have made sense when there was just
farmland on either side of it, but why didn't anyone bother to tidy things up
after the houses were built?

And how much time is wasted at council tax payers expense by over paid
bureacrats in town halls all over the place scrambling about to find out if
theirs is the odd numbered side of a street or the even numbered side when
someone complains that a street light's out or something similar?

Remarkably little. It'll be readily available information

Boroughs have agreements between themselves re carriageway
maintenance.

One maintains the road and bills its neighbour for half the cost.

A borough has to have a boundary somewhere!

Rob.
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