I've heard it all now. It's discriminatory to implement a congestion charge in one direction (the congested one) because people who travel in that direction are going to be charged, whilst people who travel in the opposite (uncongested) one aren't.
Do you hear yourself? 🤣
Of course its discrimination. What do you call it if one set of people are treated differently to another just because of where they live.
If all you are trying to do is reduce the congestion then perhaps it might be better to get rid of the road completely & make people walk !!
You don't call peak fares on public transport 'discrimination' based on the fact that people who work afternoons or nights don't have to pay them. Measures are being put in place to try and cut the use of cars to ease congestion and pollution, ffs - London has arguably the most extensive public transport system in the world and people STILL won't guve up their sodding cars. What do you propose is done about the absolute gridlock caused on the roads when we the Blackwall Tunnel is shut? How do you propose new crossings are funded? Charging people to drive AWAY from congestion would be a monumentally stupid idea as it would be counterproductive.
You've not thought this through...
It's nothing to do with "thinking it through" but to do with penalizing 1 sector of the public just because of where they live.
In your first paragraph you talk about peak fares & people working shifts. That is also true for the new Blackwall Tunnel charge where people working late shifts will be charged differently to those working "days". But that's not my point. My point is that people working the same shifts are being charged differently just because of where they live.
Would you think it's fair if only people commutimg into London from Dartford on SouthEastern trains were charged peak fares & those travelling into London from Essex on C2C were charged off peak, even though they were travelling in at the same time.
Perhaps it is me after all 🤷♂️.
It’s only peak time in one direction though.
That is my point.
Peak time happens twice a day. Going north in the morning & south in the evenings.
Makes no sense.
Yea when the majority of cars are on the road travelling ? It's really not difficult to understand.
I think it is for you.
Its got nothing to do with the amount of traffic.
There will now be a charge for using the Blackwall Tunnel. The charge is increased at peak times.......FOR TRAVEL IN ONE DIRECTION ONLY.
I give up. I suspect I'm being trolled so this will be my last say on the matter.
Jesus wept, yes because at peak times the traffic is mainly moving in one direction ? it changes direction later in the day. What is so hard to understand.
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A boost for those of us living in Lee.