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Re: Londoners- check this out before you vote tomorrow
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Originally Posted by Vivienne Westwood
Boris as mayor would be like discovering you had piles and there was no cure for it.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Huh make the city less congested, you do realise that the jams are just as bad now as they were 5 years ago and the public transport budget has been cut by 10% as well, the congestion charge has proved to be such a success, it's actually putting other cities of adopting similar tolls.
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a) 8% lower, from the Fifth Annual Review of the congestion charge I've been ploughing through.
b) £240m more on buses a year, let alone all the rail and DLR investment. Where on earth does that come from? The Tories are criticising Livingstone for wasting huge sums of money on it (because they don't like the poor moving around), so it can't be them.
c) No it isn't, go to Stockholm, Milan and Singapore. There aren't a lot of cities big enough with the technology and public transport capacity necessary to introduce it, of course, so the number of possible export sites isn't high.
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776.
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