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[zippo]

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.

the local paper gave the out going Labour mp who backed the scheme a really good going over about how the questionnaire was worded ,and his attitude .He is now looking for another job. There was more to it but the nail in his coffin was the charge and his attitude towards it

[waspy]

Oh Humm, what a gnikcuf suprize. I recall this was talked about some years back when i worked as a steel fabricator & i recall saying "well how they gona tax me when i walk to work 90% of the time"?
They'll bring this in all over the country if it works else where & then i'll cycle to work & they can stick up their esra  

[TheBoy]

According to the online public transport timetables, for me to get to work for 9am, I need to catch the 10pm bus! 11 rather hours!

[Martin_1962]

Leave around 6 get there about 11

I think mine was bus to town, train to Birmingham, train to Reddich, bus to Inkberrow

Something completely stupid anyway

[HerefordElite]

All the councill need to do round here is ban the school run - rather X5's and discos (soory James ) grrrr

half term is bliss

[Vamps]

It would be interesting if Stockton Borough Council brought this in, they are the biggest employer and almost all their offices are within the town. They could charge themselves, think not.

[HerefordElite]

It would be interesting if Stockton Borough Council brought this in, they are the biggest employer and almost all their offices are within the town. They could charge themselves, think not.

same here - it's great when the largest employer in the area is the councill - jobs for the boys and all that

[theowletman]

... 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.  

How can they charge a company or its employees for using their own property? Public transport should come with a guarantee - if it does not get you to work on time you get a free months travel and your employer is paid for however many minutes late you were. Sounds fair. Oh and what will they do with the empty spaces I wonder ? Have somebody making organic peace crisps perhaps ?

[Vamps]

Another nail in the coffin for town business, anyone with any sense will move out of town, or even worse, to another area where they will get a grant to move to.
And as said if a company has had the forthought to set up where they can provide car parking why should they have to pay. I need my car for work, so how would that work out, also, I could not get to work on public transport, hardly exists where I live, one of the main reasons I have to spend so much time running the kids around.

[korum]

I used to work in notts and it was brought to the companies attention a year or so ago, now they are a big company so they said dont worry we will just pay it.

But if they do bring this in then i see alot of bussiness leaveing notts.

What will happen to places like QMC hospital they have alot of parking spaces and also nottingham uni they have even more?