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Hi Boris and All,

Well it’s a brand new year and time for fresh new starts.
Now we are in 2010 can you please confirm when the Western CC zone will be scrapped?
Are we any nearer to an indication of a date?
How is the implementation of the new system and company to manage the CC going?

I normally get to work on a motorbike but have decided against this recently as the roads are like ice rinks.
I would use public transport but it takes me two or three times longer to get to work in Notting Hill, as my home is not well served by public transport.
So I have to use my car and the CC charge is hurting me badly.

I think it is clear that the reason for the recent increases on all public transport fares (with more to follow I am sure) is to help top up and replace the funds that will be lost by the scrapping of the Western Zone.
I quite frankly I think this is how it should be.
We should all pay for what we use, why should I have to ultimately pay for people sitting on a bus or a tube train because I use my car!??
They should pay what it costs and NOT be subsidized by me and the rest of the hard working tax paying public, the only exceptions I would make to this would be with OAP’s or people who have genuine disabilities (not work shy dole & benefit scroungers).
I also presume the key reason the Western Zone has not yet been scrapped is because you have had to find a way of balancing the books.
If the lost revenue was not the problem you could have introduced the scrapping of this charge from the moment you entered office (or as quickly as you managed to introduce the banning of alcohol on public transport). But you didn’t because you don’t have the cash to do it.

It costs me a lot of money and taxes to keep my car on the road and with the added constant increases in fuel taxes (not DUTY it is all TAXES, covert or otherwise) it already makes it near impossible to keep my car, let alone drive it and as such I make sure I do not use my car if I don’t need to and I am sure this is the same for most people now.
I will be back on my motorbike as soon as the road conditions are safe again (saving on the CC charge as well as petrol costs).
It is a travesty that due to Ken’s bad financial management of the public transport system and his eagerness to try and price all cars off of London’s roads that you and all of us are now suffering.
Just how much money did he squander on the Bus Transport System (using CC money in part to do so)?
Global Warming, Climate Change, or any other nonsense that the Government wants to try and use as a reason to tax us even more is a joke and the joke is wearing very thin for all of us.
This has nothing to do with reducing pollution and has everything to do with collecting covert taxes.

Times are hard for everyone at the moment and I can’t imagine there isn’t one person who hasn’t been touched and affected by this recession.
I know the public transport system is financially a mess but please don’t continue to hit the already massively tax burdened car driver with this stealth tax.

Show your true colours Boris and lets start 2010 in a positive light, we need to see an end to the covert taxes of Labour, so please declare a date for the end to the Western CC zone and declare that date today??

You are the man that can see clearly through the mist and nonsense that you had to inherit, its time to let the sun shine through to a brighter day.

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The congestion charge is a farce and disinsentive to London tourism. Cut the tfl red tape Boris and honour your pledges.

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