Boris Johnson launches Transport Manifesto
Conservative Mayoral Candidate Boris Johnson has launched his Transport manifesto today. This link takes you direct to the Adobe .pdf version of it; http://www.backboris.com/assets/completed_transport_manifesto.pdf
Prominent features include scrapping Livingstone’s plan to charge a £25 congestion charge on people carriers and reconsulting on the western extension of the Congestion Charge zone. Unlike his Lib Dem rival he does not propose to include Surbiton Hill in an All-London CC zone, where people from outside London (at the Elmbridge end of Lovelace Road, for instance, will have to pay £10 a time to drive into it. You will find the relevant passage quoted verbatim at www.pauljohnston.wordpress.com under the heading ‘Weak thinking Brian!’