Congestion charge fine

[PistonGuy66]

I have just had a fine in the post for not paying the congestion charge. Im fine with that but the reason i didnt pay it was because it was on a Sunday,my question is have you always had to pay on a Sunday, i thought it was free on a Sunday, is this a recent change?

[Portofoni]

Bonus , it's free on Christmas day , don't remember when it became every day .

[SmoothCriminal]

Khan increased it last year during pandemic also extended the hours to 22:00 7 days a week

[PistonGuy66]

Greedy fkers! Oh well i might try an appeal. I only go up town 2-3 times a year and always pay it,so just a bit pissed of they changed it.

[randlemarcus]

You have about as much chance of a successful appeal as I do for circling the block, and dipping into the CC for fifty yards. You're a grown up in a ton of metal, know the rules.

[Monkeylegend]

Ironic that Khan extended the congestion charge during lockdown with probably the lowest level of traffic in London since cars were invented.

[valiant]

Monkeylegend said:

Ironic that Khan extended the congestion charge during lockdown with probably the lowest level of traffic in London since cars were invented.

Condition of the deal reached with the DfT in return for receiving bailout funds for TfL.

[PistonGuy66]

randlemarcus said:

You have about as much chance of a successful appeal as I do for circling the block, and dipping into the CC for fifty yards. You're a grown up in a ton of metal, know the rules.

What the fk does that even mean??

[AlexRS2782]

PistonGuy66 said:

randlemarcus said:

You have about as much chance of a successful appeal as I do for circling the block, and dipping into the CC for fifty yards. You're a grown up in a ton of metal, know the rules.

What the fk does that even mean??

I'm going to guess it's a more extreme version of - if unsure, check before deciding to travel into a congestion charging zone?

[Monkeylegend]

valiant said:

Monkeylegend said:

Ironic that Khan extended the congestion charge during lockdown with probably the lowest level of traffic in London since cars were invented.

Condition of the deal reached with the DfT in return for receiving bailout funds for TfL.

I know but to charge more for congestion when there is none is farcical.

They will be reducing the charge next to encourage more vehicles in to raise more money to repay the bail outs

[PistonGuy66]

There are some very odd people in here…

[Monkeylegend]

PistonGuy66 said:

Greedy fkers! Oh well i might try an appeal. I only go up town 2-3 times a year and always pay it,so just a bit pissed of they changed it.

Waste of time.

[PistonGuy66]

anonymous said:

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I was really just trying to find out when they changed it so sundays were not free. Im not bothered about the £80 but have never heard or read anything about the change.

[Monkeylegend]

anonymous said:

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Ignorance of the law as they say.

[Aluminati]

Khan has skinted London, pay up .

[Mojooo]

Monkeylegend said:

valiant said:

Monkeylegend said:

Ironic that Khan extended the congestion charge during lockdown with probably the lowest level of traffic in London since cars were invented.

Condition of the deal reached with the DfT in return for receiving bailout funds for TfL.

I know but to charge more for congestion when there is none is farcical.

They will be reducing the charge next to encourage more vehicles in to raise more money to repay the bail outs

It was an ideal time for it to be snuck in (by the Govt) when covid was at its peak

its put me off driving into central london at times when the old CC wouldn't have existed.

[TVR1]

Aluminati said:

Khan has skinted London, pay up .

Except he didn’t.

What he did do, is reduce the billion £ deficit that Boris left him and just prior to Covid, has managed to build up cash reserves of nearly 2 billion.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...

[Nemo Sum]

TVR1 said:

Except he didn’t.

What he did do, is reduce the billion £ deficit that Boris left him and just prior to Covid, has managed to build up cash reserves of nearly 2 billion.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...

Thank you for writing this. I'm not a fan of Khan myself but he gets a hell of a lot of blame for things that he didn't do. TFL was running just fine, financially, before the government understandably placed restrictions on travel. Now Boris is using the severely weakened financial position of TFL to extort more money out London as a whole and everyone who wishes to travel here whilst the blame all falls on someone else.