tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 17:06:48 on Fri, 16 Oct 2020,
tim... remarked:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran...haun-bailey-ra
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As a disinterested party, I can't believe that anyone is seriously
suggesting this

The N/S Circular area isn't like the central area where everyone inside it
is moderately well off, or lives in a bubble where they can walk/bus to
whatever service that they need.

People who live in the "Circular" area, are people in normal employment
with lives that mean that they have to have a car.

and an annual tax of 5,475 pounds to own one, is bloody ridiculous

If the local councillors suggested this they would be out on their ears at
the next election

It's only because Boris is a Tory, and most of the affected LAs are
Labour/LibDem run that he has a hope of getting away with this politically

but it's still a bag of nonsense socially.

It's nothing to do with congestion, but simply a potential way to raise a
poll-tax the pay for TfL's huge deficit.

we know that

but why should car owners in this zone pay for it?

It's PT uses that benefited from the fare freeze, they should be paying for
that mistake


I can't see how they could enforce a hugely enlarged CC zone anyway —
they'd need a vast number of cameras and admin support. It would also lose
the Tories every London seat (and not just inside the Circular roads).