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Former Mayor of
London Ken Livingstone launched the proposal for an extension of the London
Congestion Zone, and a major public consultation exercise was undertaken to
obtain the views of the public and other "stakeholders".
Despite the fact that the public consultation showed a large majority of all
interested parties were opposed to the plans for extension, he pushed ahead
with the plans in 2004. In one of the largest consultation exercises ever
undertaken in London, the following were the preferences of those who
submitted comments:
In other words, almost 70% of members of the public who had an opinion were opposed to it. The mayor said that the proposal “was controversial” and went on to say in his announcement statement that “consultations of this type ….inevitably tend to elicit responses primarily from those opposed to whatever is being consulted upon…” and even went on to suggest that the negative responses resulted from an organised campaign against the proposal. To demonstrate that he was denying the obvious truth, the consultation process also included a public “attitudinal survey” from which the responses were as follows (the result was still strongly opposed to an extension of the charging zone of course).
This scheme also demonstrated yet again the lack of financial probity in the Mayor. The net revenue from the scheme was estimated to be about £10 million per annum, when it was planned to cost up to £120 million to implement, which is a pretty poor return on investment. Back to main West Extension Campaign Page: Back
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