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Name: Shaun Marshall on Jul 20, 2007Comments: Please stop this crazy scheme. It would destroy the twon.Flag
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Name: Clare Scammell on Jul 20, 2007Comments: ludicrous! if you attempt to force this through against the majorities wishes then you will be responsible for the total demise of the city. you've already gone against the masses with the ridiculous guided bus idea. the city is already on the down with to many people and naff buildings everywhere. sort it out but not by flattening everything good. spend the money on policemen on the streets to make it a nice city again.Flag
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Name: Barbara Bell on Jul 20, 2007Comments: Another form of Tax. Why should Cambridge residents have to pay, I think it is outrageous. Infact no one should have to pay.Flag
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Name: Barbara Bell on Jul 20, 2007Comments: Another form of Tax. Why should Cambridge residents have to pay, I think it is outrageous. Infact no one should have to pay.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 21, 2007Comments: I am totally against this proposal to add yet more tax and restrict freedom. Small businesses within the city will suffer dreadfully from the effects. Those on lower pay will also suffer hugely from a daily burden on their journey to and from work.Flag
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Name: M.V. English on Jul 23, 2007Comments: As there is so much adverse feeling on this subject, I do not think the Council has the authority to impose such a charge/tax without a referendum. I don't ever remember such a depth of anger as is being shown at present in our local paper.Flag
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Name: Mrs S Bell on Jul 23, 2007Comments: I work in Earith and travel against the flow of traffic, both to and from work. To be charged to leave the city is ridiculous, especially as there is no public transport I could realistically use. Send me to prison I would be prepared!Flag
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Name: Maurice Bogen on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Absolutely ridiculous charging residents. The congestion charge should be a mile around the city centre and not for residents.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: My wife and I only use the car to go out of Cambridge - not in - and I can't see why we should pay a charge to merely park outside our house.Flag
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Name: Niall Barber on Jul 23, 2007Comments: I feel as a self employed gardener i am facing a tax to go out and work!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: I am 73. I use an electric bike in Cambridge, but I do sometimes have to use my car in bad weather and to take my neighbour shopping or to get to a doctor or hospital. I should not have to pay to make these trips.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Stop Cambridge from becoming a tumble weed and stop road pricing.Flag
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Name: Rod Boyce on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Stop Cambridge from becoming a tumble weed and stop road pricing.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Stop Cambridge from becoming a tumble weed and stop road pricing.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Stop Cambridge from becoming a tumble weed and stop road pricing.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Stop Cambridge from becoming a tumble weed and stop road pricing.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 23, 2007Comments: It is unacceptable to expect residents to pay. Cambridge is such a small town. How am I expected to drop a child at school *at* 8:55, and then get to work, do a full day's job, and then get back in time to pick up my child, cook a meal and interact with them. Or does child rearing doesn't matter any more. Maybe the council will do that for us as well. Or maybe one adult in the household should not have a day job so that they can ferry kids around on the joke that the public transport is. I don't understand why the cost will increase if residents are to be exempt. Are there any financial targets to be met My wife works outside Cambridge and I work near London. It takes atleast 1 hour 45 minutes for me to reach work using public transport. I won't have a family life if I am to use public transport...and it will cost twice as much.Flag
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Name: Paul Raeburn on Jul 23, 2007Comments: Councillors are supposed represent the views of the local people. Yet Cambs County Council councillors have developed schemes like the guided bus, which has little support amongst voters / residents. Now is the time that residents start to make their views known, and vote out those idiots in power who do such much injustice for residents and workers in the city.Flag
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Name: Karen Purtill on Jul 24, 2007Comments: Disgraceful to be charged just to leave my house.Flag
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Name: Ivan Howlett on Jul 24, 2007Comments: If the City Council want to encourage commerce into the city, then surely they should not be considering Congestion charging. One of the comments I read recently likened cambridge to a ghost town should this go ahead. I agree, and the City Council should get their heads from out of the clouds, admit that their programme of traffic lights and roundabouts does not work and stop blaming all road users for the problems. If councellers can't stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen. It is the City Council's decision to allow retail parks within the city boudaries, so why don't they utilise the resources they already have under their noses, like the roundabouts on Newmarket Road, if everybody turned left when leaving the various sites along this road, then we could do away with the traffic lights thereby ensuring free flow of traffic. It works in Stevenage.Flag
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Name: Phill Diver on Jul 24, 2007Comments: Like the guided bus you laid down and died in objecting to it with any strength or substance now bet your life you do the same with congestion chargingFlag
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Name: Gareth Bevan on Jul 24, 2007Comments: Proposed changes to public transport as described do little or nothing to reduce the need to use private cars for anybody living within the congestion charge area. i.e. unless you provide a much more comprehensive network of bus routes around and across the city residents will still be completely dependent on private car use for medium distance travel in peak timesFlag
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Name: H C Wardle on Jul 24, 2007Comments: This is a very unfair charge which will penalise the poorest members of the community and cause real hardship and disruption to people's lives. We are meant to be living in a democracy, not a dictatorship. The electorate must be balloted, as happened in Edinburgh when a charge was proposed. City residents didn't even have any input in electing the county councillors wishing to inflict this scheme upon us. 'Blue Badge' disability disks relate to the person not a vehicle. Providing the disabled person is being transported and has their valid badge and 'clock' with them, then regardless of what vehicle it is, the journey is exempt. If the disabled person is given lifts by friends, family, neighbours, carers etc in their car then the vehicle is covered for that jorney and no charge should be paid. How do you ensure the disabled get their entitlements but the car owner/driver involved doesn't get billed for that journey but does for all others when they're not helping a disabled person out How long would the charge remain at just 2 hours daily, Monday to Friday How long before it becomes full-time and 7 days/weekFlag
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Name: Emma Bruce on Jul 24, 2007Comments: I have seen the proposed congestion charge area and this seems to cover most of Cambridge leaving very few options for those who need to get accross town. Public transport doesn't help much on these journeys. the only option not to involve the charge is to use the M11 which will use more petrol and therefore create more green issues. the proposed charges should not take place. Cambridge city council already peanalised the poor and vulnerable (see carpark profits and the "real cost of Cancer") and now they will peanalise the rest of us .Flag
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Name: Pat Hills on Jul 25, 2007Comments: i work in milton and travel in the opposit direction to ALL the traffic and i will have to pay for the privilage of working out of town, i cant afford to spend up to £100 a month to go to work, this is a redicilous idea.Flag
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Name: Julie Hills on Jul 25, 2007Comments: i live on the North side of cambridgew and work on the south side of Cambridge, no matter where i go i can not avoid the congestion charge. i am on a low wage and this will make it impossible for me to afford to get to work! Also this will have a negative affect on my house price! who would want the aditional cost of buying a house in town compared to the villages and then pay £1300 to drive to work not including the cost of insurance and petrol!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 26, 2007Comments: Completely unfair. Has the council really thought this through I for one cannot afford to pay anything more than the council tax and other bills I already pay. What about people less well offFlag
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Name: Terry Stancliffe on Jul 27, 2007Comments: Congestion charging is a piece of political-correctness gone mad and vindictive. Movement is essential to the life and prosperity of a community, but charging does nothing to help it except to exile and punish some of the people who would participate in it. It's a million miles away from a sensible and joined -up transport policy . Part of the congestion is due to reserving lanes for privileged traffic even when no buses are running on them. In many places in the US, restricted lanes are open to multiply-occupied vehicles. But here, an unprivileged vehicle can't become privileged no matter how many people it carries, and a bus remains privileged and politically correct no matter how empty it is. The only genius in this arrangement is the perverse genius of creating a new form of social class division. And what about people with heavy loads that can't be taken on foot, by bicycle or by busFlag