Londoners Warn New Yorkers: Say No To Congestion Charge
London’s business owners and motorists have warned New Yorkers that they face a world of pain should the New York Governor implement a congestion charge – similar to the misery it’s wreaked in our capital and championed by our useless Mayor Sadiq Khan. MailOnline has more.
Plans to carve up parts of the Big Apple and implement charges of up to $23 (£18.95) to enter central Manhattan were outlined yesterday as the iconic American city aims to slash the number of cars on its gridlocked roads.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is ploughing ahead with the controversial idea in a bid to raise billions – following in the footsteps of London’s Transport for London which has raised more than £4 billion from the Congestion Charge since 2003.
The proposals come just months after Sadiq Khan – himself a staunch defender of burdening motorists with pollution charges for driving their cars – visited New York City during his £34,000 taxpayer-funded tour of America.
During the visit, Mr Khan had been gushing in his praise for the capital’s congestion charge, telling reporters congestion pricing was a “massive success” and was necessity in major cities to cut pollution and gridlock.
But businesses and motorists closer to home have warned of the dire impacts the additional levy has had on the capital, as millions of cars are still being clocked in the congestion zone each month.
Meanwhile, Khan’s other anti-motorist pet project – the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) – has faced heavy criticism from researchers, who claim it has barely had an impact on emissions.
In November last year, researchers from Imperial College London found the controversial scheme resulted in just a 3% reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels and “insignificant” drops in levels of ozone (O3).
Amazingly, at some sites around the capital, air pollution actually worsened, despite the ULEZ coming into force.
Last month the Federation of Small Businesses wrote to the Mayor to warn him that expanding his (ULEZ) scheme out to large areas of Greater London in 2023 could spell the end for local entrepreneurs.
London‘s Chamber of Commerce and Industry also warned Mr Khan that policies “that are rushed and fail to account for business’ requirements will have negative outcomes for our city”.
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All part of Agenda 2030.
At some point populations the world over are going to erupt as more truths are revealed.
Hopefully a lot of the perps are starting to have sleepless nights, and deservedly so.
The situation is going to deteriorate quite rapidly and then it’s going to be messy. Piling shit on shit might be the plan but ‘kin hell when things kick off…
I’ll hand it to them, they have tried to hide and mask everything they are up to, but there comes a point where people notice that things just aren’t right. We’re still a way off all the people seeing the little lies, and then realising its all part of one big lie, but the day will come, and I don’t think it will be pretty.
Off topic, Toby, but the “London Calling” podcast appears to be unavailable at present – problems?
I have had trouble loading it on my PC but it works OK on my phone.
Absolutely it is Agenda 2030, as huxleypiggles says below. And that terrible Sadiq Khan is absolutely one of them too. How can we get rid of him? I had hopes at the last mayoral election. If only we could get David Kurten as mayor.
No need to warn New Yorkers about anything. It is too late. Socialism is alive and well and destroying the heart of this city one day at a time.
The way things are going, why would anyone base their business in London? It seems that its only a viable option if its possible for the majority of staff in a London based business work from home in which case the London address becomes not much more than a Post Office box. When physical work or manufacturing is concerned businesses are leaving London in their droves. Try getting a plumber in London for example?