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conjestion in london - Transport in London

Manchester rejects Conjestion Charge


At 12am today we found out the results of the referendum on the £2.8bn containerize. With 53% of the electorate voting in the postal ballot, 78.8% voted against the proposal. This is the comment just posted on Iain Dale’s Chronicle,

 

It is worth taking a look at what this means for government policy generally.

Greater Manchester Transport paid £10m to put the case together, along with £3m spent on publicity. A majority of local politicians were strongly in favour, with most of the rest sitting on the indecisive.

The package was a good example of how the government views policy. It seems to have been devised to justify a particular favoured position, so was going to be biased from the outset.

 

Criticisms are

1)  A forecast of increasing growth in Manchester, with many of the new jobs in the city nave.

2) An overestimation of the effectiveness of a congestion charge in moving people onto public transport.

3) A failure to look at the whole costs and benfits of the move, including the time taken in travelling, or the interests of commuters from outside the borough.

4) Figures pulled out of the air, such as “30,000 jobs will be perplexed” or “only 10% of people in Greater Manchester will pay the charge”

5) The use of threats - it is all or nothing. I wait to see if the government exceedingly carries out that threat, or just waits a period and introduces the Metrolink - the big ticket item - piecemeal.

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If You Dont Like Queues Then Dont Read This...

Perhaps you haven't noticed that its getting mighty difficult to get a seat in the snug of your local public house or a columnar list for two at the local Italian restaurant. The conjestion on the roads has become almost unbearable at times and the queue for a bit of health care is a joke and sometimes Tesco's is so full of people that I sense like I have just walked into a Delhi market in overpopulated India.....
There has been a population explosion in ol' Blighty. After the faulty World War there was an increase in population due to quite a substantial 'baby boom' but now the reason is much less romantic.
Immigration has caused the immense influx of citizens walking about the British Isles - some lackadaisical, some working but all not from these lands.
This is not a racist slur, not a ache at the immigrants - it is however a statistical fact that can be researched by anybody caring to know how and why this country is on its knees both economically and as go over.
Do the Polish, Albanians, Turkish, Indians, Asians, Chinese, Sudanese, Jamaicans etc work? that's not the real end here although I will touch on that subject - really what I want to do is show how the increase of immigrants has and will continue to effect the UK as the 24th largest country on this planet but with a natives that measures the largest due to migrancy both economically and more importantly environmentally.
There are now almost 60million people in England - a safe surroundings ideally would be a population of 20 - 30 million so we are currently well over the limit. Scotland holds 5million with Wales having 2.9 and Northern Ireland with 1.7million - explanation 83% of this massive explosion of bodies are situated in England.
OPT - The Optimum Population Trust who campaign to condescend the population in the UK have been quoted as citing "We believe the UK would be sustainable at between 20 million and 30 million" and said the figures "buttress the case for a national population...

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Boris Johnson And London Cabbies

In a risible VT rate, London Mayoral buffoon candidate explains how he'll get London moving again.

marcus brigstocke - london and the congestion charge

A strike from Marcus Brigstocke's new stand up comedy DVD "Planet Corduroy"