£35.50 to take a car into London 😲

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Confirmed the Blackwall tunnel and the new Silvertown tunnel will become toll tunnels in 2025
£4 per crossing 😡😡 add that to the congestion and ULEZ charge hardly worth going to work !!

Of course it is. By making it expensive you price out the poor. That is not the basis of a fair society.
Rich people can drive whatever they like as much as they want. Great big 4x4s with massive impact.

But then that seems acceptable to so many that don't practice what they preach

Hopefully one day, all private cars will be a thing of the past in central london, rich or poor

Massive 4 x 4s are not seen as acceptable to many

So let's target them equally. Let's ration visits to the capital.

Is there not a bus you could get?

But it isn't what is acceptable, it is what is possible.

So how do all the posters here suggest that tradies manage?

Paris is pricing them out, hopefully london will go the same way

ULEZ. A scheme set up by Boris as I recall.

Not if you are a delivery driver or removals firm

Tradesmen taxi food delivery . Looking at a few thousand people at least. Not everyone goes into zLondon to sit in an office

Sure, but in that case it's simply the cost of business. If you deliver to somewhere outside London then the price is £x, if you deliver inside the congestion zone then it's £x + £15 or whatever.

Are you driving a tank to Mayfair or something?

I have a car in fairly centralish London and I have never paid a penny, my last 20 year old car was ULEZ exempt as well.

Or cycle

LOL

Difficult to take tools and materials for a bathroom installation, house rewrite, heating installation etc. on public transport!

Plus not all of London is covered by decent public transport! My home to my work is 15-20 minutes by car, 60-90 minutes by public transport depending on how long I have to wait between the three different buses. I live in a London borough but crap public transport options.

Get a motorcycle, exempt from charges, cheap to run (don't know about the tunnels I admit as live west)

I think it'd be difficult to come up with a rationing scheme that couldn't easily be circumvented. You can't link it to the vehicle as, otherwise, a rich person will just use multiple vehicles. You can't link it to an app on a phone because, again, they'll just use multiple phones.

Building large, accessible car parks on the outskirts means building those car parks in what are already suburban commuter towns. Getting the land to do that in those areas would not be easy because that land would be much more valuable for housing that can be advertised as having ready access to a train line.

Trains work well. Ulez only for older more polluting cars. Congestion charge only if you drive right into the centre. SO coming south of the river, past Tower Hill. There are exemptions for disabled drivers, so I am very supportive.

Or if you work some shifts! Trains to my London borough don’t run overnight.

46% of london households do not own a car, people manage

You will never price out the really rich.

If you are a delivery driver/removal van then you pass costs on - all your competitors have to as well so no one is disadvantaged. Maybe you lose some distance to bike couriers for small items which is exactly what the policy intends to achieve.

Get a bus? Train? DLR?

You can't link it to an app on a phone because, again, they'll just use multiple phones.

You link it to national insurance numbers?