To a certain extent yes that is supposed to be the point....................
However, people are not stupid. Nobody believes that the money raised by this is going to be recycled in to public transport. It will just be diverted to other areas.
I have spent most of the last 12 years living in Melbourne where the council spent a shit load of money on some very nice motorways. They put toll gates on them to pay for the cost and also to raise money for public transport improvements. Once the cost of the roads were paid off (6 years ago) they decided it was such a good revenue raiser they were going to keep charging people to use this network of roads. End result a lot of people paying a lot of money every day to go to work and how much improvement has there been to public transport from all of this? None whatsoever. Nothing different would happen here. Its nothing more than a local tax for the people of Manchester.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 16:42,
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