Congestion charging at Heathrow !!
Congestion charging at Heathrow !!
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mdh

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809 posts

295 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/2931901.stm

What is this man doing. This proves he is only after the money.

So journey times in congestion charge London have gone up. Ken is saying 'well if you want to stop it will take millions of pounds' and now he's on about expanding it to Heathrow ?????

If you live in London please get rid of this twat next time the mayor is elected.


swilly

9,699 posts

305 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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That proves it - Livingstone really is a cold blooded lizard-man from outer space as he clearly has no empathy with mankind.

Don

28,378 posts

315 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Livingstone.

Who will the Crossrail service benefit? Londoners.
Who wil be the £10? ME! Because I don't live in London and have to travel there by car.

This is a way that Red Ken gets to raise funds from people who can't vote for or against him.

If you're a Londoner do the decent thing, eh?

One more reason to go to Gatwick.

thub

1,359 posts

315 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Just where does he stand on jurisdiction? Surely Heathrow is far enough out to come under somebody else?

Podie

46,649 posts

306 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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thub said: Just where does he stand on jurisdiction? Surely Heathrow is far enough out to come under somebody else?



BAA...?

CarZee

13,382 posts

298 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Podie said: BAA...?
put that sheep down Podie - this is a serious matter

dontlift

9,396 posts

289 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Don said:
One more reason to go to Gatwick.


Or East Mids or Manchester, or Birmingham or anywhere else for that matter

Buffalo

5,488 posts

285 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Podie said: BAA...?
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put that sheep down Podie - this is a serious matter



PML

>> Edited by Buffalo on Thursday 10th April 10:32

AndySa

902 posts

294 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Let Ken try and explain to your average American tourist why he must pay a fiver to drive his hire car out of and into the airport.

d3ano

7,414 posts

284 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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"Speaking at his weekly press conference Mr Livingstone said Heathrow suffered the worst pollution outside central London, most of it caused by cars"

What the hell are these people using to get such a reading? Are planes eletric now or wind powered???

Its a frigging Airport!! planes are pumping tons of crap into the air...how can people that produce such reports actully wake up in the mornings.

Oh Kens an arse also

"That Livingstone wants to charge people to say goodbye to loved ones is fundamentally wrong."

Isn't that against the "European Human Rights" law??? Can't see this happening.



>> Edited by d3ano on Thursday 10th April 10:37

Podie

46,649 posts

306 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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CarZee said:

Podie said: BAA...?
put that sheep down Podie - this is a serious matter



SGirl

7,924 posts

292 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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The toll would also deter people from getting family or friends to drop them off and pick them up, which he dubbed "kiss-and-fly".

"This is the death of kiss-and-fly because that will cost you £10 for the two journeys," he said.

Okaaayy... So Livingstone has no family or friends then? Or does he just not care enough about them to see them off at the airport when they go away?? Maybe that's the case. So this isn't just a tax on the motorist, but a tax on general decent humanity as well, yes??


"Heathrow is increasingly a business airport so the people can afford it."

WTF!!!! I can't believe he said this. "People can afford it"?! I can't tell you how angry this makes me. "You have money - give us all of it because we have none to spend on more buses".

Please, decent people of London, please please pretty please - vote this moron out! Please! I'm asking nicely.

Good job we have CarZee around to cheer us up - nice one Carz!

kooperkidd

397 posts

307 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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Is a £10 charge enough to switch the passengers away from LHR, thus causing BA etc to cut jobs, jobs held by Londoners, Londoners are out of a job, causing Ken to be hounded from the area?

I like Ken - he puts more nails in his own coffin in a week than Blair could muster in 10 years.

kevinday

13,888 posts

311 months

Thursday 10th April 2003
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kooperkidd said: Is a £10 charge enough to switch the passengers away from LHR, thus causing BA etc to cut jobs, jobs held by Londoners, Londoners are out of a job, causing Ken to be hounded from the area?

I like Ken - he puts more nails in his own coffin in a week than Blair could muster in 10 years.


Trouble is Londoners will not be paying the £10 because they use the public transport so will not care one way or the other.