[milton-chat] Road pricing petition

Tim Steele tjfs at tjfs.com
Wed Jul 25 12:58:52 BST 2007


Andi Everitt wrote:
> It seems to me that no one should need to use a private car for commuting
> to a place of work for 'normal' office hours. It should be perfectly
> possible to provide suitable shared/public transport solutions for all
> those of us who work approximately 9-5 and travel the same route every
> day. The question is how you use public resources and the tax system to
> 'encourage' the fairly radical change in behaviour and expectation that
> this requires.

The obvious choice is charging a lot more for workplace parking and 
using the revenue to provide better bus services to and from town. This 
would also require making the on street parking in Cambridge residents only.

Tim



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