BOB.T

I thought it was a congestion charge?

Congestion charge doesn't apply to the Prius

avonvilla

Too true, i cant beleive no one else has picked up on this, surely the only discounts should be for small cars or cars with lots of people in them ? Proves it is not a congestion charge at all but a cash cow. Also if people drive up to London but dont go into the congestion zone surely this means that it is slightly quiter in the centre and even more jammed just outside it ?

SWRTWannabe

That's because the Congestion Charge isn't about reducing congestion as such - it'a about reducing the environmental impact of congestion. Hence, the environmentally friendly cars are exempt.

BOB.T

So envioromentally friendly congestion is OK then?

@ Ken and the government

SWRTWannabe

Quite - Ken's not out to make our journeys to work any more enjoyable, no no no

Don't live, work or drive in London at the mo, but I'm dreading the day when all the other councils jump on the charging bandwagon

boomer

**** the Prius, i fancy getting myself a stinking great big 4.7i-V8 Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee (converted to LPG)!!!

That too gets a 100% discount on the congestion charge, but you can drive around all superior and scare the life out of the lycra-butted, face-masked, vent-lidded, pedal-powered tree huggers who probably think that they now own the place

See http://www.powershift.org.uk/scripts...congestion=CCE for more choices!!!!!

Oh, and whilst we are on the subject, there is a lot of interesting reading at http://www.congestion-charging.net/ (especially in the Factfile bit).

mb

Clarebabes

LOL!

cookiemonster

what a load of bollox

"this could happen" say the rental organisation
"that might happen" say the motoring organisation

They even have the fact that the system pays for itself then turns a profit down as a bad thing - whats the alternative ? the taxpayer has to subsidise the system too ?

Of course the offices are outside the zone - the zone only covers 8 square miles of the city & west end.

And finally blame livingstone for the fact that there was poor voter turnout at the election. So he gets voted in democratically, but he shouldnt enact any of his policy because not enough people could be arsed voting ?

I have never heard so much tosh in my life

BOB.T

I hope we don't get any of this crap up here[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

It'll be a while off though if it does come, we're only just getting our speed limits dropped and that's a whole different argument

Blind drivers, LOL