London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched yet another grab for more power when he already has too much. He is proposing pedestrianisation of the major shopping area of Oxford Street to be done by setting up a new Mayoral Development Corporation which will take over the powers of Westminster Council. This is another blatant power grab by the Mayor which needs to be opposed.
Please respond to the public consultation here: https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-street
Pedestrianisation of Oxford Street is a good idea in theory but ignores the practical problems associated with diverting bus routes and providing access to cars, taxis and delivery vehicles.
New York Congestion Charging
New York recently introduced a congestion charge to limit traffic in Manhattan and raise money for the local transport authority. But with Donald Trump now in power the Department of Transportation has given New York City a deadline of March 21 to end its congestion pricing plan.
We need someone in central Government in the UK to follow this lead and scrap congestion charges which simply do not work and are just a tax raising wheeze. Local authorities and the Mayor of London should not have the power to raise taxes in this way.
Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://x.com/Drivers_London )
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Done and sent
100% Agreement, sick sand tired of having every available penny pinched from my pocket for some hare brained scheme to raise tax. Taxes that are then used for everything else but genuine needs.
It’s ok suggesting this but what’s the plan?