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Originally Posted by West Ender
They tried to bribe, or bully depending on your point of view, the populace into voting for this charge by promising improvements to public transport etc. only if there was a yes vote. No wonder Manchester said No. Those improvements should be implemented anyway then, as Entwisi rightly says, people would be much more likely to use public transport and leave the car at home.
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And where is the money going to come from West Ender ? Money spent on the scale that the proposed improvements were to be made would have to be paid back (raised) in some way or other. There were no bribes or bullying otherwise would not have been put out to public vote. To improve public transport on the proposed scale submitted, they will have now to look at other areas like parking fees and maybe charging people to park at work on their car parks. Will be a lot slower process and congestion will build up more and more. The Government were willing to loan Manchester this amount of money to improve their transport network, providing they could show a way of recouping it. How else could they do it ?
The money could not be obtained from the Road Fund Licence as this is already stretched maintaining U.K. road networks plus all the other things that go along with our motoring. Was a separate loan from the Government .. motorists would soon grumble if a large proportion of our road tax went to Manchester and not nationally.
To me, is only the same as paying the toll for the Severn Bridge or the Blackwall tunnel .. has to be paid for at the end of the day.