Lawmakers in New York have thrown out the mayor’s plans for inner-city congestion charging before the proposals had even reached their first voting stage. City mayor Michael Bloomberg devised the road tolling legislation, but a spokesman for the state’s Democratic Assembly confirmed “There was no support… to bring the bill to the floor.”The money raised by the potential 7am-7pm road charge would help to improve public transport, according to Mayor Bloomberg. But there were serious concerns about traffic jams that could be caused outside the Manhattan area, along with cynicism over the spending of revenue from the system.
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Re: New York throws out C-charge
I find this whole thing wierd. I speak to many many people about climate change and cars and I have not spoken to one person who disagrees with me.
Why is it then that the media and the government seem to reflect an opinion that im in the minority?
Remember when all these environmentalists were given a bad press by the media and government? Now they are being interviewed during prime time news programs.
There are stupid reports from the Artic in which a man in the dingy observes a peice of ice collapsing behind him and then says "here you can see the visable affects of climate change"! What tosh, how could you possibly prove that!
As the congestion charge survey showed 65% of people disagreed!
This whole smoke screen is trying to brainwash us into paying more tax willingly. Its all about the money and Labour love to tax and spend!
Problem we have is our children and most gullible people are being led to beleive in this "theory" as if it was 100% proven. The kids are preaching it and gullible people are protesting with banners. If you asked 99% of protestors about the science they couldnt give you an answer - they just blindly beleive bacause the environment is very PC!
Re: New York throws out C-charge
I have to agree with JJ on this one. the Yanks just won't tolerate any stupidity abt this climate change scam. meanwhile, we Brits just sit down and say 'oh well' and just keep getting punished for trying to make out lives better. where will all this end? I mean, all the figures that Red Ken ever comes up with are skewed up. lets face, we don't really have a say anymore if after a survey over 65% of londoners didn't want an extension of the con charge but yet he still got it thru and extended the zone. why did they bother with the survey then? they should have just come out and said 'right, we're extending the con-charge zone and there's nothing you can do abt it'. that'd make more sense. see, we always mock the Yanks, but they killed the idea b4 it even got anywhere. and these are the guys that have more private transport and public transport than us brits. as for Al Gore and the likes, no wonder he lost the elections, maybe the americans saw something we didn't after all. and all hail the Ruskies. at least they don't set abt fake pretences.
Re: New York throws out C-charge