Ludwig
Hopeless romantic
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Nottingham council is to tax parking spaces at work and will charge £288 + VAT for a single parking space. Small businesses owners are naturally furious.
Nottingham First In UK To Tax Office Parking
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it covers businesses in the centre of Nottingham, and it's been going for a while. The Workplace Parking Levy area is arranged around railway lines, tram lines and main bus routes. There's a park and ride scheme. The main point is that Nottingham has a strong radial pattern of commuting, and that certain main roads get clogged up, and that costs everybody time and money.
Exacting levies on car use exposes a rich seam of panic in car commuters - the bizarre behaviour on the margins of the Congestion Charge Zone is a prime example, and the crazy petrol queues that form when petrol duty goes up by 2p is another. Furious is the right word - the Congestion Charge was greeted with the kind of rhetoric that one associates with 'Birthers' in the US. It all settled down after a while, and, yes, people really did leave their car behind. My worry about the Nottingham experiment is that the levy is tiny - £1.40 a working day. To get anywhere close to paying for the congestion and the pollution, £10 a day would be a start.
Exacting levies on car use exposes a rich seam of panic in car commuters - the bizarre behaviour on the margins of the Congestion Charge Zone is a prime example, and the crazy petrol queues that form when petrol duty goes up by 2p is another. Furious is the right word - the Congestion Charge was greeted with the kind of rhetoric that one associates with 'Birthers' in the US. It all settled down after a while, and, yes, people really did leave their car behind. My worry about the Nottingham experiment is that the levy is tiny - £1.40 a working day. To get anywhere close to paying for the congestion and the pollution, £10 a day would be a start.
Mr Phoebus
New Member
Has Nottingham still got an evil sheriff?
