| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Barry Smith | Bad for business, bad for tourism - BAD |
| 202 | Barry Smith | Bad for business, bad for tourism - BAD |
| 203 | Graham Hammond | Any charge would force me to seek employment outside of Cambridge as it is a cost I can not afford to have imposed on me. |
| 204 | Julian Scott | |
| 205 | Anonymous | |
| 206 | Geoff Staff | 2 of us car share and are employed on opposite sides of Cambridge. Couple this to the fact that there are no viable public transport alternatives for many coming into, and getting around, Cambridge to work (not so in London) the idea of congestion charging for Cambridge is seriously flawed. |
| 207 | Dilys Silva | |
| 208 | Tina Pankhurst | it is stupid to include the innovation, business and science parks with in the congestion zone, people would not be able to afford to go to work. My husband and I try to use one car whenever possible however on your charging if we had to use 2 cars we would pay £2500 over the year just to go to work and we cannot afford on top of Nursery fees. |
| 209 | Anonymous | no way hoozaa |
| 210 | Siarul Islam | I work at Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road and I think it will be greatly unfair for me to pay £5 to get off the A14 to go into Cowley Road!!? |
| 211 | Rob Nelson | Tax is not the answer. If I have to make the journey, I have to make the journey. Give me an option. Public transport from home to work (20 min walk, bus, train,bus and bus, 10 min walk) in each direction. 2.5 hours and very expensive. Car - 45 minutes. Public transport would cost me 3.5 hours a day or 700 hours a year (29 days!). Plus, how can you charge me for something you don't own. We own it! The charge would mean I would either need to quit my job, or get a pay rise (inflationary perhaps?). Finally, the cynic in me asks isn't it funny that the proposed zone encompasses the science parks? No congestion issue (I've worked there for nearly 8 years and have no problem with it) and loads of people needing parking. This stinks of revenue collection. Keep your filthy hands out of my pockets. Why should road users pay more for using roads, when NHS patients don't pay more tax for using the health service, cyclists don't pay more for using cycle paths etc. I feel bad about the environment, but spend the £500M on reasearch in to more fuel efficient cars or practical alternatives. |
| 212 | Anonymous | |
| 213 | verity cole | A congestion charge would make the cost of living in an already overpriced town impossibly high for the majority of its residents. |
| 214 | Carole Green | |
| 215 | Gary Conway | I don't drive a car to work everyday for fun, I do it because there is literally no alternative way of getting from Somersham to Cambridge. I and thousands of others already pay amongst the highest rates of transport tax in the world, just to tax my car and fill it with petrol. A congestion charge will not reduce the number of cars on our roads, it will just be another tax to pay.
Why not spend some of the millions this will cost to implement going after the thousands of untaxed and uninsured cars on our roads, and spend the rest on widening the A14? |
| 216 | Luis Silva | Keep Cambridge free! It is outrageous! Just another way to get more money from the public! |
| 217 | judith wells | I cannot afford to live in Cambridge but work for the University Press. I have no real alternative to using my car - train very expensive, park and ride goes nowhere near my office. It would be financially impossible for me to pay congestion charges. |
| 218 | Anonymous | From now on anyone standing for office calling themselves the "scrap the congestion charge party" will get my vote. It's as simple as that Mr/Mrs Councillor - introuduce this and you lose your cushy job. |
| 219 | Antony Appleyard | |
| 220 | Sarah | |
| 221 | Sharron Butteriss | |
| 222 | Helen ONeill | If the council can come and show me how to transport 2 children and myself to Cambridge before 8am everyday in a reasonable time, for the same money on public transport then I will support the charge wholeheartedly - if on the other hand they cannot ensure reliability, fair transport charges and adequate journey times on public transport then I will have to continue using my car - on the other hand they could always lend me the incredible amount of money I need to buy a house in Cambridge! |
| 223 | Anonymous | If the council can come and show me how to transport 2 children and myself to Cambridge before 8am everyday in a reasonable time, for the same money on public transport then I will support the charge wholeheartedly - if on the other hand they cannot ensure reliability, fair transport charges and adequate journey times on public transport then I will have to continue using my car - on the other hand they could always lend me the incredible amount of money I need to buy a house in Cambridge! |
| 224 | Ben Harris | |
| 225 | Anonymous | |
| 226 | J Robinson | This will simply kill Cambridge. It does not have the integrated transport structure that London has and the charge will become an extra unaffordable tax on those trying to earn a living. |
| 227 | Mark Pearson | |
| 228 | Ian Cannell | |
| 229 | Anonymous | |
| 230 | Mila Rendle | I oppose this policy and do not believe it will reduce congestion within Cambridge. |
| 231 | Karen Boyce | |
| 232 | Zoe Evans | I work just inside the congestion zone. I am a mum so I work part-time and if I had to pay the charge it would just not be worth working. This Government want us Mums to work and then price us out of the market with ideas for this congestion charge. I need my car as I have to be able to get to my son's school immediately if he is ill. This would not be possible on public transport. Thank you. |
| 233 | Brian Orrell | |
| 234 | Janet Mary Orrell | |
| 235 | Joanna Page | As a regular driver in Cambridge (and cyclist whenever possible), it is very clear that most of the traffic is caused by parents taking children to school. The congestion almost entirely disappears on routes into the city centre outside of school term. I think the problem would be better solved by introducing measures to ensure that more children are taken by bus to school, e.g. by setting up shuttle buses from Park and Rides. The public transport options from my village are very limited - as I often have to work late in Cambridge, it would be impossible for me to avoid driving in. I moved out here because the house prices were too expensive in the city. I can't afford to pay a congestion charge now that I am forced to drive rather than cycle to work (which would have been my preference). |
| 236 | K.M. Henderson (Mrs) | |
| 237 | Nick Young | I think its terrible to charge local residents between £3-£5 just to take there child to school and go to work. Residency in cambridge is already very expensive. Look after the residents trying to live day to day in the city! |
| 238 | Luis Plaza | |
| 239 | Anonymous | |
| 240 | Ian Farmer | You cannot have it all ways - excessively high park and ride bus fares AND a congestion charging, you will tax people (locals not tourists) out of the town. |
| 241 | Andrew Chilvers | Road pricing is another socialist stealth tax. |
| 242 | Anonymous | |
| 243 | Christina Scripps | This is an unfair charge, especially for those of us who have no public transport services between our villages and Cambridge. There is no other option but to use a car to get to the city. It would actually take much longer to drive from home to the closest park & ride in Milton Road, than to drive directly to the city centre. Unless there are much better transport systems in place, there is no way of converting people from their cars and reducing traffic in the city centre. It seems like a very profitable scheme, but not workable for commuters. |
| 244 | Alan Barber | I have an elderly parent and other relatives living in Cambridge. This would greatly add to the costs of visiting them. |
| 245 | Michael Walker | Brilliant, isn't it? They build Northstowe, Cambourne etc with the specific aim of housing Cambridge-based employees, then try and fleece them to use roads they've already paid for once. If the Council are so keen to reduce congestion, why don't they start by scrapping Northstowe?
At the very least, to allay suspicion, how about a tax REBATE for anyone who works from home/ buys a bus season ticket or similar? No - doesn't have quite the same appeal, does it... |
| 246 | a powell | |
| 247 | Gordon Mackenzie | |
| 248 | JULIE WRIGHT | HOUSE PRICES FORCED US OUT OF THE CITY
AND NOW YOU WANT TO CHARGE US TO COME BACK IN TO WORK - I ALREADY PAY TO PARK AT WORK. YOU ARE GRADUALLY KILLING THIS CITY. |
| 249 | E Grainger | |
| 250 | Felicity Collins | I work full time but I can ill afford an extra £100 a month out of my income to pay for congestion charging. We already pay road tax and very high petrol prices, this is just another tax on the poor old motorist. My council tax is exorbitant and I don't feel I am getting a proper service, especially from refuse collection. I have to use my car to get to work as the bus is not reliable - it regularly misses out Teversham and goes straight from Fulbourn to Cambridge. The same applies to the bus home. |