16 October (Part 1) - Clickbait?
The News
Shopper is reporting that the London congestion charge - £15 a go
seven days a week - is likely to be extended to the North and South Circular
roads. Just think for a moment what that would mean to
boroughs deprived of a
river crossing by Bozo Johnson and Leader of Bexley Council Teresa O'Neill. All
but the well heeled would be effectively cut off from three quarters of the capital. A survey said that the local population
wanted a crossing but Bexley Council was still in ostrich mode back in 2013.
It has paid the price ever since as its expansion plans are hampered by poor transport links.
My own Sunday afternoon trip to East Ham and on to Chingford, return after
midnight, would cost £30. The care duties I have referred to occasionally would,
now that we are advised to avoid public transport, cost £60 a week. I will not be alone in that.
Even Sadiq Khan under a malign Tory Government cannot be that mad can he? Idiotic Khan may be but surely he would never escape the repercussions.
Maybe that is the plan. An unscrupulous Tory Government might link his TfL bale
out to wrecking London. Then there would be a good chance of kicking him out at
the next election. The Tory candidate is promising to reverse the latest Congestion Charge impositions.
Do politicians really think the public will not notice their dirty tricks?
The short paragraph below is provided as evidence on another local website. It is part of a seven page letter from the Secretary of
State for Transport to the Mad Mayor Khan and dated 14th March. It is what
caused Khan to punish London with his Congestion Charge increase five months ago.
Not really anything to do with an extension to teh South Circular.
There is nothing in that letter that mentions the South Circular Road. Stop
panicking, there will be a revolution before the Congestion Charge is extended
out as far as the Woolwich Ferry but perhaps we should be prepared for one.
