A message from MART "Manchester Against Road Tolls"
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Ok, this message is from MART "Manchester Against Road Tolls"
can you please please pass this around to anyone you think would find in relivant.
[ IF YOU AGREE WITH THIS MESSAGE, THEN PLEASE PASS IT ON
Hullo,
Almost no one wants the so called "congestion charge" introduced to the Manchester area. But if we all just do the usual and sit back complaining to each other then in a few years time we could be paying to drive on the main roads whether we are going to work, to the shops or to visit friends and family.
Despite the opposition to road pricing, the Government have said that they will still go ahead with "pilot" road toll schemes in some areas that have been volunteered by the local authorities - Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Derby, Durham, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle / Gateshead, Norwich, Nottingham, Reading, Shrewsbury and Sunderland. They are calling these "congestion charges".
The area that is likely to be first to introduce charges is the Greater MANCHESTER area. The charge would apply to 10 main "corridors" going across the whole county and may also apply to the M60 and other motorways. They have given no indication of how much the charge would be, but the London charge is £8 a day, of which over half is spent in the cost of collecting the charge. The Greater Manchester council bosses want to do something more complicated than London, so it may cost even more to collect the charge.
The North West is already hit with tolls to cross the river at Liverpool, and the Government plans to put a toll on the existing and proposed bridges at Runcorn. In the North West it will soon be difficult to get to jobs or facilities without paying some form of toll. This is bound to damage businesses in the area.
Drivers already pay £30 billion a year in taxes on fuel and £20 billion in other roads taxes (VAT on new cars, vehicle excise duty, company car tax etc). In return for all this money, next to nothing is spent on roads, and space available for drivers is reduced.
A petition has been started to scrap ALL tolls including the plans for road pricing and so called "congestion charging" in Manchester and elsewhere. The petition says that instead of more charges we should have more of the existing tax going back into better roads such as - bypasses round towns and villages, multi level junctions, tunnels in urban areas, and extra lanes on motorways.
Please sign the petition, and copy this email on to anyone else who is or might be affected.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notolls/
(When you sign the petition, you get an email back from 10 Downing Street. You have to click on the link in that email, for your "signature" to count.)
John McGoldrick (creator of petition)
www.notolls.org.uk
PS As well as signing the petition, please write to or email your local papers and local MP complaining about the Manchester plans and demanding a referendum or "Toll Poll" as they had in Edinburgh when they defeated the "congestion charge" plans there.
And if you can help even more, then please email "Manchester Against Road Tolls" at - manchester@notolls.org.uk ]
can you please please pass this around to anyone you think would find in relivant.
[ IF YOU AGREE WITH THIS MESSAGE, THEN PLEASE PASS IT ON
Hullo,
Almost no one wants the so called "congestion charge" introduced to the Manchester area. But if we all just do the usual and sit back complaining to each other then in a few years time we could be paying to drive on the main roads whether we are going to work, to the shops or to visit friends and family.
Despite the opposition to road pricing, the Government have said that they will still go ahead with "pilot" road toll schemes in some areas that have been volunteered by the local authorities - Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Derby, Durham, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle / Gateshead, Norwich, Nottingham, Reading, Shrewsbury and Sunderland. They are calling these "congestion charges".
The area that is likely to be first to introduce charges is the Greater MANCHESTER area. The charge would apply to 10 main "corridors" going across the whole county and may also apply to the M60 and other motorways. They have given no indication of how much the charge would be, but the London charge is £8 a day, of which over half is spent in the cost of collecting the charge. The Greater Manchester council bosses want to do something more complicated than London, so it may cost even more to collect the charge.
The North West is already hit with tolls to cross the river at Liverpool, and the Government plans to put a toll on the existing and proposed bridges at Runcorn. In the North West it will soon be difficult to get to jobs or facilities without paying some form of toll. This is bound to damage businesses in the area.
Drivers already pay £30 billion a year in taxes on fuel and £20 billion in other roads taxes (VAT on new cars, vehicle excise duty, company car tax etc). In return for all this money, next to nothing is spent on roads, and space available for drivers is reduced.
A petition has been started to scrap ALL tolls including the plans for road pricing and so called "congestion charging" in Manchester and elsewhere. The petition says that instead of more charges we should have more of the existing tax going back into better roads such as - bypasses round towns and villages, multi level junctions, tunnels in urban areas, and extra lanes on motorways.
Please sign the petition, and copy this email on to anyone else who is or might be affected.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notolls/
(When you sign the petition, you get an email back from 10 Downing Street. You have to click on the link in that email, for your "signature" to count.)
John McGoldrick (creator of petition)
www.notolls.org.uk
PS As well as signing the petition, please write to or email your local papers and local MP complaining about the Manchester plans and demanding a referendum or "Toll Poll" as they had in Edinburgh when they defeated the "congestion charge" plans there.
And if you can help even more, then please email "Manchester Against Road Tolls" at - manchester@notolls.org.uk ]
Edited by cirian75 on Friday 20th April 11:52
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