If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
Taxman!
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
Goldfinger:
Could this be another way of keeping the car industry going too?Having to renew your car every 5 minutes just to keep up with the London emission regs that like to be changed every 5 minutes too??
That is what I was thinking, it’s a good way to prop up the car industry. It will improve the “image” of London too. Everything nice and new!
Keep up the regulation, as I’m paid to do the work that others don’t want 
I used to like London when I first started driving in the days before they had truckers down as the Anti Christ.
I never go there now in the truck, and I’m pleased I live 300+ miles from the ■■■■ hole.
My mate tells me they have started a similar cash making scheme in Paris by penalising the poorer who can not afford a new or nearly new car.
IIRS there are about 8000 buses in London. Scrap the lot and replace them with athe same number of these:
cav551:
IIRS there are about 8000 buses in London. Scrap the lot and replace them with athe same number of these:
Oh no.Water vapour combined with coal emissions you’ll create a global warming apocalypse within the first year of use. 
As for LPG converted ■■■■■■■ N14 powered Routemaster.Or even better could we make a Detroit two stroke run on LPG instead. 
Perhaps, if there weren’t as many people with names like “Sadiq Khan” driving around London nowadays, we wouldn’t need to take these measures.
Harry Monk:
Perhaps, if there weren’t as many people with names like “Sadiq Khan” driving around London nowadays, we wouldn’t need to take these measures.
Oh no not the reference to polluting mini cabs again.The thread will be locked for sure now.
True but it’s tarquin and arabella living in newly trendy Hackney that will be pushing for this as they ■■■■■ mummy and daddy’s money away on there pop up scotish Nigerian fusion cuisine pop up resteraunt and cycle round Victoria Park and uber it any further
I don’t know how you lot can’t see the positives.
For once they’re not trying to blame trucks for pollution in London.
There was a lot about replacing buses with new busses, and replacing black cabs with new ones, and there is funding to help cabbies do this, I believe the Black cab is still built in Coventry, so there’s a bonus for those workers.
And of course a lot of Londoners voted to remain in the EU, and one of thier pro EU arguments was that an out vote would mean we wouldn’t try and meet air quality targets. Well this has proved them wrong hasn’t it.
I’m trying to remain positive, and all that jazz… but having bought a car in January this year (Euro 3 05-Plate Diesel) my main reaction is “Oh ■■■■■■■■”.
If It weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all! 
Carryfast:
Winseer:
Looks like my days of going into town are numbered. I’ve yet to drive a car less than ten years old.Why not just extend the congestion charge to cover the entire interior of the M25 then?
Because ‘London’ and with it Khan’s remit doesn’t cover the ‘entire interior’ of the M25.So you can shove that plan where the sun don’t shine.
Comfortable in the suberbs then? - I thought Khan was intending to build affordable housing in the “outer” London districts as well?
Crapped out Chiselhurst, Buggered Bromley, Crack-addicted Croydon, Gone South Southall, … Oh hang on - those last two are already there!
Those cameras on the trunk approach roads to London - seem to be the limit of “Khan’s Remit” as you put it. Bexley seems to be inside it, despite being in Kent… Dartford would be outside it, but inside the M25…
I’m thinking the real remit zone lies somewhere between the north and south circulars then - and the M25… London is starting to look like a dartboard rather than dartford on the political map.
Sounds like a good idea to get the riff raff off the roads.
Don’t think I’ve ever owned a car more than 5 years old.
Winseer:
Carryfast:
Winseer:
Looks like my days of going into town are numbered. I’ve yet to drive a car less than ten years old.Why not just extend the congestion charge to cover the entire interior of the M25 then?
Because ‘London’ and with it Khan’s remit doesn’t cover the ‘entire interior’ of the M25.So you can shove that plan where the sun don’t shine.
Comfortable in the suberbs then? - I thought Khan was intending to build affordable housing in the “outer” London districts as well?
Crapped out Chiselhurst, Buggered Bromley, Crack-addicted Croydon, Gone South Southall, … Oh hang on - those last two are already there!
Those cameras on the trunk approach roads to London - seem to be the limit of “Khan’s Remit” as you put it. Bexley seems to be inside it, despite being in Kent… Dartford would be outside it, but inside the M25…
I’m thinking the real remit zone lies somewhere between the north and south circulars then - and the M25… London is starting to look like a dartboard rather than dartford on the political map.
No we’re actually in the middle of a fight with zb’s like Andrew Boff to make sure that we ‘don’t’ and never will be a ‘London Suburb’ or a part of London.IE within the M25 but still as much a part of Surrey ( and therefore NOT part of Khan’s remit ) as Cranleigh or Haslemere.As for Dartford if it’s in Kent like us it ain’t part of Khan’s empire.In which case as I said let him hit his own vote within his own borders in what was ‘Middlesex’ and leave us out of it.
As for Bexley and Bromley etc,like Croydon,they’ve already long been lost to London’s urban sprawl and certainly aren’t in ‘Kent’.IE,like Croydon,Bexley and Bromley are long established London Boroughs.
But Mole Valley and Elmbridge certainly ain’t and hopefully never will be.But if Andrew Boff does ever get his way I’m sure many of us won’t stay around here to see it happen.
How many hospitals are within the emission catchment area?
Wonder how much this will affect (let’s say this time) - nursing staff (and many other hospital staff too probably), that are maybe just starting out on the bottom pay scale ‘band’■■?
Just how much will it cost them just to work??
*Excluding public transport option to get to work BTW…
Goldfinger:
How many hospitals are within the emission catchment area?Wonder how much this will affect (let’s say this time) - nursing staff (and many other hospital staff too probably), that are maybe just starting out on the bottom pay scale ‘band’■■?
Just how much will it cost them just to work??
*Excluding public transport option to get to work BTW…
In addition to hitting the lowest paid with regressive taxation he’s now trying to stir up inter ethnic aggro with bs claims of racism. 
I’m over getting worked up about anti-motorist schemes in towns & cities now, in fact i’m becoming more & more in favour of them.
They’re too many cars on the roads, too many 9-5 office lemmings sat in a traffic jam on their own inside a tin can all going the same direction. Acres of land & road space is then taken up by the tin boxes just sat there doing nothing all day. It’s mad when you think about it & not really sustainable, especially if the future is for all the ■■■■ things to need plugging in. The way forward is surely to do whatever necessary to discourage it and invest heavily in an affordable, frequent & reliable public transport service for people to use instead + better segregated cycling infrastructure.
I remember there was a referendum in Manchester about 6/7 years ago about congestion charging in return for better public transport. Pretty much everybody including myself voted against, if it happened again now my vote would be totally different.
Lets not forget, less cars = an easier life for us going about our duties.
rob22888:
I’m over getting worked up about anti-motorist schemes in towns & cities now, in fact i’m becoming more & more in favour of them.They’re too many cars on the roads, too many 9-5 office lemmings sat in a traffic jam on their own inside a tin can all going the same direction. Acres of land & road space is then taken up by the tin boxes just sat there doing nothing all day. It’s mad when you think about it & not really sustainable, especially if the future is for all the ■■■■ things to need plugging in. The way forward is surely to do whatever necessary to discourage it and invest heavily in an affordable, frequent & reliable public transport service for people to use instead + better segregated cycling infrastructure.
I remember there was a referendum in Manchester about 6/7 years ago about congestion charging in return for better public transport. Pretty much everybody including myself voted against, if it happened again now my vote would be totally different.
Lets not forget, less cars = an easier life for us going about our duties.
No thanks.We like the freedom of being able to use cars get over it.Especially in the case of a ‘City’ like London,which has an unfortunate habit of calling and regarding much of the South East in general as ‘London’.But feel free to stand for election on a ticket of banning car use and forcing people to use public transport within the GLA’s borders.
Everybody in their own private car may be the dream but in reality it = gridlock. Too many people.
If people want to use their car thats fine, but it shouldn’t always be the easiest and cheapest option, priority in big cities should lie in the alternatives for commuters.
like to know why travellers and commuters put up with it,train fares keep rising,so people use their cars,then these idiots in power bring in congestion charging which at the time was £5 a day,now it is £11 a day [I think]does not affect me as I live nowhere near London,but these dxxxs seem to think people are a bottomless pit of money who they can rip off everyday,and the worst part is the people who it affects put up with it
rob22888:
Everybody in their own private car may be the dream but in reality it = gridlock. Too many people.If people want to use their car thats fine, but it shouldn’t always be the easiest and cheapest option, priority in big cities should lie in the alternatives for commuters.
The issue of over population in London is a totally different matter.That depends on people suddenly waking up to the fact that London’s streets aren’t paved with gold and that if they all want to live in one small part of the country they’ll have to get used to all the resulting downsides.Like living in a high rise tower block and having people from other parts of the country among other dictatorial control freaks like Khan telling them they can’t use car transport.At which point the problem would obviously solve itself. 
While as it stands he’s obviously just trying to take advantage of the contradiction,of loads of people all wanting to live in London’s urban zb hole, but not wanting any of the downsides that go with it.By telling them that if he selectively hits them with regressive taxation every thing will then be fine.As I said notice that he’s steering well clear of hitting his own major Middx vote demographic in that tax scam.