Personally I am against this c charge, I think it will be a disincentive to come into the city and would only work if public transport was a viable alternative in all circumstances.
It MIGHT have worked years ago before transport was messed up by three huge government mistakes, ie Beeching, bus deregulation and rail privatisation, but it was these major errors which contributed to the expansion in car use anyway
I simply see this charge as an additional tax and it is going to go towards the Metrolink which I am not a huge fan of anyway. To me this was a cheap and nasty compromise to the question of through running between Victoria and Piccadilly which would have been much better solved by the Piccvic underground proposal of the early 70s, or the Catlefield Curve as the next best idea which the City Council objected to
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