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# Would it make you happy
If they called it 'congestion tax'?
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 16:44, archived)
# The name is not an issue.
If it were a tax ratified in parliament then all well and good, but it's not. It is a revenue gaining scheme aimed at the wealthy or business that has done nothing in London for the public transport system ( which I believe was meant to be the big carrot )

If local councils want more money for public transport then ask the government for it as they are supposed to. If the government need more money for it then ask the country as they are supposed to.
I'm not adverse to paying taxes. I'm adverse to being forced to give money to local councils that don't manage things any better with or without the funding.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 16:53, archived)
# done nothing for public transport? bollocks
10% off bus fares came in very handy.
As did the reduced prices on the Oyster system.

New buses on my route this month too.

You're talking from a standpoint of ignorance I'm afraid.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 17:27, archived)
# Making it cheaper
for those that use it by charging those that don't is not my idea of useful. It has not made it any easier or quicker to travel around london by public transport. We were promised quicker travel. In my experience of London, for the most part travel by bus has grown longer in time on the same routes and I have no idea what the figures for tube travel are but it's clearly now operating way beyond capacity.
The fact is that if I finish work at 6pm in Central London I can leave for home on public transport or I can go to the pub for an hour and a half and still get home at the same time.

I'm not ignorant of public transport. It's simply not an option for me due to the amount of time it takes to get anywhere. Because it is cheaper for you does not in any way mean that the infrastructure has benefited from the congestion charge.
The idea was to free up roads and make journeys quicker. making it cheaper to sit on a bus longer is just taking the piss. Especially for those that don't sit on the bus.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 17:39, archived)