Congestion Charging
I am personally against congestion charging as I believe that it hits the most vulnerable in society. We currently pay according to the News of the World to the Treasury since Labour came to power the following….Parking Fines - doubled to £1.2 billionSpeeding Fines - up eightfold to £120 million paVAT on fuel - up from £4.3 billion to £6.8 billionFuel tax - up from £19.4 billion to £25.2 billionRoad tax - up from £4.5 billion to £5.5 billion
Yet in Sholing we have not seen an increase in the maintance of the roads or pavements. In some cases they are a disgrace. To charge motorists to use roads is not the right policy as quite often they have no other option. To say that people should travel at less busy times does not help the teacher or nurse whose shift starts at a certain time.
The Labour councillors in Sholing voted against the traffic calming measures in Middle Road. They also have overseen the cut in real terms of the road maintance budget. To introduce new charges on moterists is unfair and unjust I am looking forward to Tony’s email about road pricing tomorrow.
I am personally against congestion charging as I believe that it hits the most vulnerable in society. We currently pay according to the News of the World to the Treasury since Labour came to power the following….Parking Fines - doubled to £1.2 billionSpeeding Fines - up eightfold to £120 million paVAT on fuel - up from £4.3 billion to £6.8 billionFuel tax - up from £19.4 billion to £25.2 billionRoad tax - up from £4.5 billion to £5.5 billion
Yet in Sholing we have not seen an increase in the maintance of the roads or pavements. In some cases they are a disgrace. To charge motorists to use roads is not the right policy as quite often they have no other option. To say that people should travel at less busy times does not help the teacher or nurse whose shift starts at a certain time.
The Labour councillors in Sholing voted against the traffic calming measures in Middle Road. They also have overseen the cut in real terms of the road maintance budget. To introduce new charges on moterists is unfair and unjust I am looking forward to Tony’s email about road pricing tomorrow.
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