Letter: Congestion Charging? Motorists Already Pay Through The Nose

Published on: 1 Apr, 2017
Updated on: 1 Apr, 2017

Dave Middleton

Congestion charging for Guildford town centre? What a splendid idea from Mr Parke [see comment on Council Acts to Address Air Quality Concerns].

Let’s milk the motorist for some more money. Why not? It’s not as if they pay anything already. Apart from of course, all the taxes that everyone else pays, plus road tax, fuel duty, exorbitant parking fees and of course, motor insurance premium tax.

I must remember that motorists are public enemy number one and must be punished until they give up their cars and motorcycles and go back to the horse and carriage for the rich, donkeys for the middle classes and sack cloth and sandals for the poor.

As for “unnecessary” journeys, I presume these are the unnecessary journeys to work, to unnecessarily earn a living and unnecessarily pay tax and national insurance. Plus of course, the unnecessary journeys into Guildford to unnecessarily support our town centre shops when we could of course buy everything we need over the internet and let the town’s retail commerce die.

Let’s not forget the unnecessary delivery vehicles, supplying unnecessary goods to our shops; including of course Mr Ogle’s bicycle emporium where, after all the cars and lorries have been “Got off the road”, he will do a roaring trade in his electric bicycles, powered of course by environmentally friendly batteries full of environmentally friendly toxic heavy metals like Lithium and Cadmium, made in environmentally friendly factories in China and shipped thousands of miles in massive, heavy oil powered, container ships.

Not forgetting of course, the fact that those batteries will be recharged with lovely clean electricity from lovely clean, coal, gas and nuclear power stations.

I think I’ll move to Alaska and live in the woods!

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