£35.50 to take a car into London 😲

The airport complaint would make more sense for City Airport!

You sure as hell don’t know where Gatwick or Heathrow are if you think travelling to either incurs a congestion charge.

Only if you start off on the other side of the river!

What are you on about? Heathrow is within the ULEZ. To get to Gatwick you need to use the Dartford crossing.

It's not £8 but £25 plus the toll. It purely penalises poorer people who've not had the money to upgrade their car. Also please don't assume my reasons for flying.

You live in a tiny village in the arsehole of nowhere because you’re annoyed toll roads exist 😂

NGL I am glad I live in a sleepy village in the shires, 3 miles from a little market town. Couldn't be arsed with this shit! LUDICROUS price!

Tell me you don't know where Heathrow and Gatwick are without telling me you don't know where Heathrow and Gatwick are...

The shills aren't really trying any more, are they?

Gatwick isn't in London and nor is Heathrow. Depends where you're travelling from but you wouldn't need to go into the congestion zone. Perhaps the ULEZ zone

Just to point out here...
Its petrol cars older than 2005, and diesel cars older than 2015.

It is the generally the poorer sections of society, but its a very small group. The banger we bought for £450 is compliant for example!

I mean so you’re happy to pay for a holiday, the flights, airport parking etc but £8 on top is too much?

Some trades are moving over to cargo bikes

I wouldn't drive into London as such but if you need to go to Heathrow or Gatwick it's unavoidable. Public transport not really an option in that case due to most flights being scheduled either stupidly early or stupidly late.

hardly worth going to work !!

Correction, it’s hardly worth driving to work. Which is the whole point.

What about the other cities with ULEZ? Edinburgh has one now I believe

So you can afford the (high) cost of a CC zone property, plus the (high) cost of a parking space in the CC zone, plus the general running costs of a car, plus the (high?) insurance cost of parking a car in central London, plus the (high) general living costs of being in central London. But the £1.50 resident's discounted CC rate is just too much?

I would suggest using the public transport system that must be literally on your doorstep but a single tube journey would cost more than £1.50 CC rate so I'm stumped. It must be awful for you.

Those who think tradespeople should not have to pay Ulez/CC (or that Ulez/CC should be scrapped to ensure that no tradesperson has to pay it), should anyone belonging to a trade also get free public transport when they are using that? Because to be logical and consistent, that's what you'd have to do.

Come to think of it, why stop there? Perhaps anyone belonging to something defined as a trade should be allowed to fill up a trolley from the supermarket for free, get a free house from the government, free flights to go on holiday...

Controversial opinion: People who work as builders or plumbers are not actually better or worse than people who work in other jobs. They are not some kind of salt-of-the-earth bollocks, they are not providing services as a charity. They are just people doing a job. And it is OK to ask people doing a job, any job, to please pay for the things they use. That includes road space, which is a limited commodity. Or public transport if they are using that.

Society should do things to make sure that people who work in trades can do their jobs comfortably, safely and easily (and one of the THE most important things they can do in that regard, BTW, is to limit congestion and parking pressure so that tradespeople do not spend half their lives stuck in traffic jams). Society is not, however, under any obligation to give tradespeople stuff (such as modes of travel) for free which other working people are not getting for free.

Exactly - real Londoners don’t drive into the centre. It’s pointless, expensive and pollutes our air. ULEZ is a deterrent. Rightly so.

London has amazing transport networks, for more like £13 per day, use those long pointy things that have the flat bits at the end (which move backward and forward). We have very polluted air, that’s what the charge is for.

Oh yes, and the air pollution. I lived in zone 1 for a year as a student, before the congestion charge, in a top floor flat high above the streets of central London. In the summer if I had the windows open for ventilation I subsequently had to scrub the walls down as the magnolia paintwork went black with the pollution. I still wonder what my years of living in or near central London did to my long term health.

I also live in London and have only once driven into central - because I got lost. Other than trades, I don't know anyone who drives to work!

‘The guy who fitted our kitchen lives in the ULEZ zone. Most of the jobs he does are outside the ULEZ zone and not easily accessible by public transport. It's not just people working in London who are affected by the charges.’

its paid parking on our street, builders, workers etc roll the cost into the work that they’re doing …

So this was just a shit stirring post as the OP hasn't come back. Nobody really cares about the ULEZ or anything else. Even Uxbridge voted Labour.

Lives in and around London for 30 years…
I have probably driven into central London half a dozen times in all house years! And on Sundays…
I have never met or worked with anyone who commutes into central London by car… even when I lived in zone3/4 I didn’t know anyone who even owned a car.
Why on earth anyone would want to drive regularly in central London is beyond me, use the tube! Or overground or bus or taxis …

@jannier he can pass the ULEZ fee onto his customers as most trades do.