The London Mayor Boris Johnson, promised to scrap the congestion charge in some areas of West London, he then reneged on the promise, using the excuse that scrapping it would leave a damn great hole in the City’ budget.
Now we have a u-turn on congestion charge.
Motorists face being charged to drive on London’s busiest roads under radical new plans from Boris Johnson.
Drivers may be forced to pay for every mile they drive — on top of the congestion charge — as the Mayor fights to plug a multi-million-pound hole in the Transport for London budget.
If previous government proposals are followed the cost could be up to £1.34 a mile. Someone with a 12-mile round trip to work in central London during the day could pay a total of £20.
Cars would be tracked by satellite and charged for entering the most congested areas. The plan would raise significant revenue for the Mayor and if it works, would open up busy areas to cyclists and improve bus journey times. It would also reduce pollution from cars. As usual the MSM giving a distorted view of this new plan.
What Mr Johnson neglects to say, is the European Union plan to impose congestion charge and road driving charge anyway!
This became evident last August when the think-tank Open Europe revealed that the Brussels bureaucrats are drawing up plans that will result in the introduction of road tolls across Europe – including the United Kingdom – despite overwhelming opposition from motorists.
We have already reported on a story about the plan to introduce road and congestion charge in Newcastle:
So Boris Johnson is only obeying orders from the unelected bureaucrats of the EU.
Of course congestion is a huge problem in London, but as everyone knows the main reason for it, is overcrowding caused by mass immigration.
There are an estimated half million illegal immigrants in London, and getting rid of them would help, but as we know Mr Johnson is pushing for an amnesty!
Drivers should remember this when struck in a traffic jam, and then are forced to pay £20 for the privilege of the twelve mile trip. How about losing 500,000 from the population of our great city?
That way we lose hundreds of illegal mini cab drivers, and more business for black cabs as a bonus.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
