Tuesday 14th January 2003

London Tolls

Simple guide to lining Ken's pockets

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[Bodo]

How does it work, when you have foreign plates?

Are they recognized as well, or just ignored?

Just curious ...

[deltaf]

Apparently theyre kakking themselves in case someone hacks their system and deletes all their records.
Hmmmmm any takers i wonder?
Id pay a toll just to see their stupid faces when it crashed out on em!

>> Edited by deltaf on Tuesday 14th January 13:37

[laner]

Excuse my dumbness but is it up to the individual driver to acknowledge that he has entered the zone and therefore needs to pay his charge before sleep on the same day??!!

[plotloss]

Its even worse for fleets. A friend of mine was saying that he can either pay a discounted rate for all his vans or he can be billed, for an extra charge.

However, in the information for fleet managers they quite clearly state that the cameras wont catch everyone every day so for fleets its winner to let them bill you!

Matt.

[outlaw]

next time im up there its take a spare set of plates time and some double sided stiky pads

**** em

[Alex]

outlaw said: next time im up there its take a spare set of plates time and some double sided stiky pads

**** em

I don't think you will be the only one...

[Fatboy]

next time im up there its take a spare set of plates time and some double sided stiky pads

**** em

Damn right. But a good splattering of mud would also do the trick - best drive down some farm tracks then. (then spray fixative over the number plates )

[pinbot]

I have just had a look at the sod-u-ken.co.uk site.

Apparently a guy in the US has offered a $5000 reward to any hacker who brings the system down.

The other suggestion I liked was walking around with a fake number plate hung around your neck. The OCR would pick it up but not be able to find the number in the database.

[corozin]

That's a classic suggestion! I can see "numberplate" T-shirts being the next craze in London.

Now what's Tony Blair's numberplate again??

[sadoksevoli]

Someone on Sod-u-ken has claimed that Capita's main site for Congesiton Charging servers is:
"Main site is hanbury street E1 manned by One Interexion security guard at night
back up site is Marsh Wall docklands
Capitas DR plan will not work for another 3 months because they are so crap. So this bascially means if Hanbury Street is out out of comission for any lenght of time Congestion Charging dies"

How about a PH Event somewhere in E1 - a bonfire perhaps?

Capita better known as Crapita - up the Government and GLA's @rse but utterly incompetent and useless- they're the EDS of the Government PFI/contracting world - always manage to worm their way out of disasters which usually cost the taxpayer dearly.

[peas_star]

i knew that he was a bad idea form the start - anyone who hasn't driven a car before is goiong to be clueless. and some how these guys always get into positions of power - what next?? timmy mallet for Major!!

[mybrainhurts]

Great suggestion from another site.

Visit the shops that sell the tickets, then walk out, letting the owner know you're not going to do business with him because he's in the scam.

Enough pressure and they'll quit.

[v8thunder]

In the papers today it was reported that Red Ken just announced he will spend the money accumulated on buses, bus lanes, bus stops etc etc. This is bare-faced cheek.

[gnomesmith]

v8thunder said: In the papers today it was reported that Red Ken just announced he will spend the money accumulated on buses, bus lanes, bus stops etc etc. This is bare-faced cheek.

Isn't it called honouring his promises or is that so unusual that it qualifies as bare-faced cheek?

[sadoksevoli]

The only promise Ken honours is his personal one to himself to restore all his GLC croneys back to overpaid jobs, ensure the taxpayer is bleeding cash into his coffers and keep his newt tank at the right temperature.

Remember -the GLA precept (i.e. the cut of londoners' council tax that Ken gets) has gone up by 94% in 3 years - and this money he won't spend on transport since he's going to get the money from the congesiton charge. Perhaps we should get rid of secret ballots so I can find the cretins who voted him in and ask them to help me out with my council tax bill (as well as bulldoze their homes, poke out their eyes and chop off their hands so they can't vote again...well not without a reasonable level of discomfort).

[MEMSDesign]

If I read the article correctly, it says that people who pay at night have to pay a £5 surcharge. And it also says that you can pay over the 'net. I didn't realise that computers were paid shift allowance/overtime.

[v8thunder]

ie none of it goes on actually reducing congestion. As we know the charge isn't REALLY going to put anyone off going into the charging zone, the new pro-bus measures will surely make congestion worse! Surely they need to overhaul the tube and reduce dependence on shoddy, gas-belching Leyland monstrosities and keep public transport off the road if this scheme is supposedly done in the name of 'environmentalism'.

[skittle]

If it has to scan your reg number why not drive very slowly about 3 inches behind the car in front on the way in and out - a little like getting out of car parks for free

The traffic's not movin any quicker than this anyway

[hertsbiker]

if it is all electronically done, what happens if I made up a copy of my neighbours plate, and walked it past the camera??? will their car be "tagged" for a fine??!!

What a laugh! you could really annoy people with this, and how will they prove they weren't there?

C

[Fatboy]

Carl - replace you neighbours plate with Ken livingston's bird's/Cheries Blair's/any cabinet minister's Plate and you've got a winner