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Oct 25th, 2021, 11:30 | #61 |
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It's really effective in my experience of accidentally dipping one road into the CC zone years back. It was near Vauxhall station, I was deliberately trying to avoid it, mis-timed my entry into a yellow box (which was also camera monitored) and so I turned left to avoid a fine from that. Did a u-turn thinking I'd get away with it, no chance.
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Oct 25th, 2021, 12:07 | #62 |
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Living outside London when I go anywhere in London these days I use my senior's free bus pass (always after 9.30am!) and then train (1/3rd off discount card) with a travelcard or my oyster card depending where I am going. It's far cheaper and dead easy to get around on all forms of transport. Gone are the days of belting up motorways and dodging about inner London roads. Bob
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Oct 26th, 2021, 09:27 | #63 |
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Well it has now come to pass! I can't imagine anyone wanting to drive within the North & South circular roads unless they really have to. Then they will accept to pay the charge. Doesn't this defeat the object?
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Oct 26th, 2021, 10:10 | #64 |
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Probably but meanwhile Sadist Khan is now getting £1.25m per day from the already suffering motorists!
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Oct 26th, 2021, 12:11 | #65 |
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Dave, Did you mean £12.50? Or has someone calculated that around 96,000 drivers will be paying £12.50 to TFL each day? I get confused easily I see.
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Let's assume that saturdays are busier with "out of town" shoppers, people visiting relatives/friends etc but sundays are quieter with people staying home, those two days probably average out at a similar number per day as the rest of the week so that works out at £8.75m/week extra revenuw from the ULEZ. That's £35m every 4 weeks or £420m for a year - i am aware the year is 52 weeks which is 13 lots of 4 weeks, i have deliberately ignored that to allow for people taking time off from work, holidays, sickness etc, car breakdowns, seasonal variations and other factors. If i were to assume consistent figures of 100k motorists per day for the whole year that would be £455m for the year. Nice work if you can get it!
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Oct 29th, 2021, 12:12 | #67 |
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I am sticking with my V90 as it is and if I really have to enter ULEZ I will pay the charge and forget it! I don't think ULEZ charges will cause a reduction in pollution which the TFL expect, but that's their problem!!
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That means anybody who is using it is doing so because it's the only option making it to all intents and purposes an entry tax. Either way, Sadist Khan and TfL are getting £1.25m/day for nothing.
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You can say what you like about London but it does have a very good underground system
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Many years ago I once drove straight across London, on the way back to Bristol from Dagenham. The only reason that happened was a serious brainfart in the MateNav(TM) system
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