In message <63pq9vF27s9pjU1@mid.individual.net>, Nick
writes
>Mark Hewitt wrote:
>> "need help" wrote in message
>>news:022ce4a2$0$24192$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>> According to tonights Evening standard, TFL will propose extending
>>>the Congestion Charge to the M25, it is not clear it means within or
>>>on the M25, do the TFL have any leway with the M25 ?
>> It's not like you have much choice in using the M25 if you want to
>>go from the majority of the UK to Kent or the channel ports.
>>
>
>What has choice got to do with it. If I want to eat I have to buy food,
>you pay vat on food.
>
>Road charging to manage congestion seems like a sensible thing to do. I
>would object to the overall tax burden being raised but I would not
>object to congestion charging being used as a tax raising technique.
Does charging really seem to be a sensible thing to do to stop
congestion? I suppose it could have that effect, but only by forcing
people who can't afford the charges off the roads so the wealthier find
they can use them more freely. It might work, but is it really a fair
and appropriate way of doing it?
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Mike_B |