Its so important that whoever will be Mayor sees the importance of replacing the ineffective and damaging central zone and western extension zone Congestion Charge/road pricing by sensible congestion management.

Better and cheaper public transport and more underground travel facility,that will encourage people out of their private vehicles, the reversing of the anti-car policy, and cheaper and more plentiful parking in
and out of town, and at new public transport hubs for widespread park and ride.
These steps will reverse the damage caused in the last 4years by the charge, and allow London to begin to flourish again; replacing further unemployment, and downsizing and shoppers keeping away from town.

The limited income that the CC scheme brought to the Mayor’s budget that wasnt spent on administering the scheme, (that would be even lower but for
the disgraceful level of fines and limited ways of being allowed to pay charges and fines) can be easily replaced by keeping more of the business rates raised in London in London.

Let all in local and central government and parliament begin to realise that enabling and facilitating interaction between suppliers of goods and services and those who use them is the way to help a city flourish. Instead of all the extra dreamt up taxes, masquerading as virtuosity, putting the city into decline and reducing choice in London.

Jim Abbotson
http://www.rescuelondon.org.uk