Even NOTTINGHAM people are angry at £Billions being wasted on London Crossrail while transport needs in English regions are neglected, denied £££

Even NOTTINGHAM people are angry at £Billions being wasted on London Crossrail while transport needs in English regions are neglected, denied £££


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The following item as published by NOTTINGHAM web site today Saturday 5 July 2008, critically refers to the London CROSSRAIL funding.....The views and the references are the respsosnsbility of the pubshers of the web siet. We pubphsx the item for informaton only...

In their criticism, they are udner the impression that London people generally are the ebnficaifreis. This si not the case at all... It is a small numebr of Big bsiess that wioll ebnefit....[To be contineud]



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WHY NOTTINGHAM'S PARKING LEVY COULD GO NATIONWIDE
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National anti-road levy campaigner Peter Roberts, from Birmingham-based lobbying group Drivers' Alliance, explains why he fears Nottingham's planned Workplace Parking Levy could be rolled out across Britain

As the city of Nottingham stumbles towards a workplace parking levy, many people will say "it is a business tax so I am not affected".

This lack of personal involvement could be why the public backlash against the proposals has yet to match that seen in other cities proposing a congestion charge.

However, this new and untested tax adds cost to business and will significantly impact employers who are already struggling with the significant economic downturn.

The council argues all the money raised will go to improving public transport, but the benefits are mixed.

Better buses and trams are welcome but the proposed tram extension will only help a few people living nearby. For everyone else this is a tax on privately owned parking spaces.

The workplace parking levy will cause business leaders to look at their finances and trim costs as the money has to be found from somewhere. It is likely some will pass the parking charges to their employees; some will reduce their workforce and some will quit Nottingham altogether if this parking tax goes ahead.

Taxation has massively increased over the past ten years with huge rises in council tax, personal tax, motoring tax and stealthy taxes such as parking prices, flight taxes and insurance tax.

There has been a doubling in council tax since 1997, and the general tax burden has increased by 50%. What has happened to all this money, we should have plenty left for public transport improvements?

Motorists alone now contribute around £50bn a year in tax and less than £10 bn is spent on transport.

London has just been given £16bn to spend on crossrail, but Nottingham gets nothing unless businesses or their workers pay a tax for parking. The war against drivers continues and Nottingham is in the front line.

Congestion charges and road pricing have been defeated, but WPL will spread to other regions if Nottingham succeeds.

People power works and by telling your MPs and councillors you want the improvements but no new taxes forces them to look at cost savings instead of tax increases.

You can help by signing a petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NottinghamWPL/

Road pricing was defeated when 1.8m signed last year. Please sign again and help stop the spread of new taxes targeting motorists.


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