| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Peter Morgan | I have visited Cambridge many times.
Congestion Charging would make me go elsewhere. |
| 2 | Michael Gosling | Regular visitor to friends in Cambridge and graduate of Selwyn College. |
| 3 | Peter Burrows | |
| 4 | Damon Green | |
| 5 | Anonymous | |
| 6 | H Edwards | I often visit Cambridge on business and for pleasure. I wil simply not travel to Cambridge if a charge is to be made and I can quite easily find alternative business elsewhere. |
| 7 | Jayne Kelly | Once again a tax on motorists, many of whom cannot afford to buy a house in Cambridge, and will now be penalised for working there. The cost of living in the Cambridge area is pretty expensive as it is, this will only make it more so. |
| 8 | Tim Hughes | I'm a pedestrian and think this idea is absurd as everyone already pays Road Tax for a reason! |
| 9 | Rachel Bunting | |
| 10 | Zoe Brown | As I was born in Cambridge and lived for years near the city centre I am horrified to hear of potential congestion charges. Why should I be penalised when coming back to visit friends and family?! The central car parks already charge outrageous prices, as do the on street ticket machines and this has only been highlightened even more compared to parking prices in Birmingham - a much larger city! |
| 11 | Anonymous | Maybe if there was a bus service to and from Willingham that was efficient, regular and inexpensive for my daughter to get to work, I would not need to drive into the center of Cambridge during these times. |
| 12 | Patrick Kelly | Park and Ride is the best solution, but again not many people use it. |
| 13 | Anonymous | gits |
| 14 | Gareth | |
| 15 | ann jones | The Park and Ride can't even be used as these come within the congestion area. |
| 16 | Quick Charles | I don't drive yet, but this would be yet another reason not to. I am disgusted by the idea of congestion charges in Cambridge, I seriously doubt it will have any positive effect on my life.
It sounds like just another way of getting more money out people. I hope it fails. |
| 17 | Anonymous | I work in cambridge and have family i visit, This would cost me loads to just get in to work over a month. |
| 18 | Anonymous | |
| 19 | Jenny Cormack | |
| 20 | Anonymous | |
| 21 | Kerrie Green | I have to commute in every morning to the Fen estate in Chesterton. The Park and Ride is not far out of town enough for it to be worth parking up to use the bus and no bus goes close enough to our place of work anyway. For, what is effectivly a 2 minute drive for me and my husband (we work together and therefore car share) we would be charged an extra £80 a month, this is a terrible expense. We will not be able to afford to work in the city on the salary we are on if this charge comes in. Likewise I will have to move my son from his current nursary. I understand Cambridge is congested but charging long distance commuters hardly seems fair when the public transport is not adiquate for our needs. We already travel for nearly an hour to get to work everyday, public transport will nearly double that time if it's not made more convieniant. |
| 22 | Anonymous | if you can get me from Godmanchester to Cambridge in a reasonable time-frame by 8am, i'd be more thn happy to take public transport to work. However, as there is no convenient option available simply hitting commuters like myself with a CC/road pricing charge is unfair and immoral. The only reason i don't live nearer to work is because i can't afford a house in Cambridge, now you want to charge me just to come to work and help the City economy! I'd seriously have to consider working elsewhere. |
| 23 | Ian Taylor | |
| 24 | Ben | so will the council cut all my other taxes so i can pay for this stupid scheme!???, looks like i'll either remove my number plates or get in earlier!....sod going into work between 0730 - 0930 |
| 25 | David Ward | |
| 26 | Sophie Cormack | I'm hoping the congestion charge is not going to be £5 as that is a hundred pound a month for me, and everybody else, to go to work in their own city! |
| 27 | paul | I will oppose the congestion charge,I am a normal working man with three kids to support and will have to travel in and out of this zone every day jus to get to and from work. |
| 28 | Paul Hanmore | Frequent traveller in Cambridgeshire and visitor to Cambridge. |
| 29 | Chris Cousins | I pay more than enough to use roads in the UK as it is and if any cities or councils introduce further road charging my business will fail. |
| 30 | Mark Roffey | |
| 31 | Alex Holliday | I work in cambridge but don't live in cambridge, with the extra cost with CC a may need to re think where i work, and it has taken 4 years of very hard work to get where I am with the company i work for, so this would be a very bad thing. |
| 32 | T Eyres | Yet another tax on the general public which is completely unnecessary and over the top in a vain attempt for someone to create a name for themselves. We are a Nanny State. |
| 33 | Jayson | YET MORE MONEY IF USING A CAR!! as if we dont pay gov enough!!!!!! |
| 34 | Emma Booth | I often visit Cambridge to go shopping and to visit friends. There are no decent links into Cambridge. It takes over an hour on the bus from Cambridge to Huntingdon. Therefore normally I drive in. Rather than charging people for going into the centre of Cambridge. Why don't you spend money on re-opening the rail link between Huntingdon and Cambridge. This would encourage the people that live in Huntingdon and St Ives to get the train to work. More people would use a train service than a guided bus service. How are the people who work in Cambridge expected to get to work when the public transport links into Cambridge are so bad. |
| 35 | jamie porter | Since the congestion charge was introduced in London I have not been into the charging area and all the businesses have lost my custom. I will do the same to Cambridge. If you don't want my custom I will take it to somewhere convenient to me, Tesco's seems to be a very successful business and guess what Access is always easy and parking free, I wonder why they are so successful? I also note that Royston increased its parking charges and the number of tickets sold fell and now Royston has a large number of empty shops, I suppose that this could be a coincidence but I doubt it. Why not try something imaginative so people can still get around and do business why not reduce the number of parking places in the center if people cant park they will find other means of transport, they have to or just pedestrianize the whole center of the city . Then offer only very short term parking in the center. With a congestion charge they just pay it and eventually congestion gets back to the same level as it has done in London, it is just another way of raising taxes increasing the road miles people do as they go to out of town stores to get free parking and placing another burden on Business. |
| 36 | Derek Reynolds | Congestion charging creates antipathy, penalises businesses and locals. Fiscal benefits must be weighed against the cost of administration as well as the alienating of residents and business. NO charging for Cambridge. |
| 37 | Anonymous | I Travel to Cambridge from Surrey to visit a housebound elderly (in 90,s) lady. She is not a relative but someone I got to know when I started work as a young lad in the 1950,s. I know she looks forward to my visits several times a year.
I myself am a pensioner, the cost of fuel to travel by car is more than I can afford already. If a congestion charge is introduced I will no longer come to Cambridge. I will not suffer as a result BUT an old friend will |
| 38 | Anonymous | This will be a disaster for Cambridge, making it a total enclave for the Rich. The cost of living will go through the roof as Low Paid Workers who cant afford to work in Cambridge will push wage inflation up. |
| 39 | Tom Wykes | |
| 40 | Chris Ward | Congestion charge costs will affect everyone because businesses will have to pass on costs to their customers. Everyone looses except the companies that the council will use to enforce the charge. They will get a licence to take your money. |
| 41 | M A Stanley | |
| 42 | JS Allen | I totally diagree with congestion charges, and in this case, I have to regularly visit Cambridge, and if implemented would have a negative impact on my travel arrangements. |
| 43 | Anonymous | |
| 44 | William Palfreman | I travel to Cambridge a lot on business. If this were introduced I would have to think about working in a more convenient location. |
| 45 | Alister Watt | |
| 46 | G Stapleton | |
| 47 | Anthony Pringle | Will spend even less in Cambridge if this happens, and I am a disabled driver who presumably will be exempt anyway. Cambridge already has a hate drivers reputation |
| 48 | John Josephs | |
| 49 | T Wright | |
| 50 | Doug Parr | |