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[Nickbat]

... but then, again, I expect a few others will follow suit.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1953028/Commuters-face-andpound185-tax-to-drive-to-work.html

More thieving from motorists.  

[Jimbob]

What a great idea, not!

here we go again  

[dbug]

Labour Council

They'll charge for having a dump next

[Jimbob]

Labour Council

They'll charge for having a dump next

Dont give em ideas!

[Marks DTM Calib]

Labour Council

They'll charge for having a dump next

They did better than that.......when re-modeling slab square they removed the public toilets and didn't replace them............so you can't have a dump anyway!

[Andy B]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

[Marks DTM Calib]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

This isnt a congestion charge, its a work place tax.

If you work and park within the city boundaries then you get taxed for the pleasure.....

[Andy B]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

This isnt a congestion charge, its a work place tax.

If you work and park within the city boundaries then you get taxed for the pleasure.....

I read it it. Same end result though. The motorist get finacially clobbered again for going to work in his/her car. How many shift workers for example could travel 20 miles to get to work for 6 in the morning by bus/train/tram/ferry/plane?

[Marks DTM Calib]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

This isnt a congestion charge, its a work place tax.

If you work and park within the city boundaries then you get taxed for the pleasure.....

I read it it. Same end result though. The motorist get finacially clobbered again for going to work in his/her car. How many shift workers for example could travel 20 miles to get to work for 6 in the morning by bus/train/tram/ferry/plane?

In Nottingham, not many.

They plan to use the money to extend the tram system so there is likely to be at least a 4-5 year period where no other real viable alternatives exist.

[Andy B]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

This isnt a congestion charge, its a work place tax.

If you work and park within the city boundaries then you get taxed for the pleasure.....

I read it it. Same end result though. The motorist get finacially clobbered again for going to work in his/her car. How many shift workers for example could travel 20 miles to get to work for 6 in the morning by bus/train/tram/ferry/plane?

In Nottingham, not many.

They plan to use the money to extend the tram system so there is likely to be at least a 4-5 year period where no other real viable alternatives exist.

They've planning to extend the Metro Link system for years. So far that's all they've done ..... planned.

[Marks DTM Calib]

It all seems to have gone a bit quiet at the moment, but Manchester was considering acongestion charge & apparently 53% of a poll supported the idea! :-?   Clever questioning I think.

This isnt a congestion charge, its a work place tax.

If you work and park within the city boundaries then you get taxed for the pleasure.....

I read it it. Same end result though. The motorist get finacially clobbered again for going to work in his/her car. How many shift workers for example could travel 20 miles to get to work for 6 in the morning by bus/train/tram/ferry/plane?

In Nottingham, not many.

They plan to use the money to extend the tram system so there is likely to be at least a 4-5 year period where no other real viable alternatives exist.

They've planning to extend the Metro Link system for years. So far that's all they've done ..... planned.

Yup, they started planning tram lines 2 and 3 12 years ago and think they might start in 2012......only the public sector can take 16 years to get something moving!

[Martin_1962]

May be more cost effective to move a business to a different area.

If they have say 200 spots, that is 37,000 rising to 60,000 a year.

But then they may just pay it.

For a smaller company with rented premises - just move

[Leomas]

I spent 8 months working at Heathrow and living on the South Coast it was physically impossible to use public transport to commute unless I could reduce my working day to 4 hours. At that it would have involved a 6 hour commute each way, driving my own car it was normally less than 90 minutes each way thanks to the chunk where the M25 was the only option.

[omegaman2]

never mind that if you work in glasgows royal infimary it will cost you 50£ a month

[Kevin Wood]

Surely all this means is that workplaces will have insufficient parking spaces. Everyone will still drive to work because the mythical public transport option simply doesn't exist and business parks will be littered with cars abandoned all over the place.

Kevin