Bikes to pay London Congestion Charge ?

[GSXTony]

Have heard a rumour that Red Ken is going to try and get us to pay the congestion charge.

apparently nothing to do with congestion but a play with numbers as his accident figures for motorcycles in the city are not comming down quickly enough. even though they have reduced (and the number of bikes risen considerably)

I will post further when I know more

has anybody else heard anything ?

[GSXTony]

just found this

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/17473896?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

[nori1000]

blinding they now want 2 charge us 4 trying 2 stay alive,sometimes no all the time riding through the city is like a lucky dip,will i survive it or will some pratt take me out and now they want 2 charge us 4 the pleasure.The trouble is so many people got out of their cars and onto scooters 2 avoid the charge they're losing money,still if they do charge hopefully they'll get back in their cars,lost count the amount of times ive come up behind some pratt that cant filter through the trafic and is just siting in the way,quick nudge on their back wheel with my front and they wobble out of the way, :twisted:

[fall off]

what a load of ******** , it's the fact that he hasn't made as much money as he wanted.. next thing it will be pedestrans

[Juvenilerider]

in that link it says that more people were in the KoSI stats on bikes than cars, implying that bikes/bikers are dangerous, bikes are a dangerous mode of transport because of cars that think they own the road. I don't see how charging bikes to enter the city is going to reduce those figures, reducing the amount of cars would, yea, be a harder task to put into action, but with less cars on the road knocking bikers off the figures would dive!

[johnnybravo]

not sure if link is too long to work on here but its under the news section of MCN - ol' Ken has said that bikes aren't going to be hit

thank god i dont drive to work - £8 per day? ouch

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.a rticle&resourceId=2090840&articleCategory=NEWS_OTHER-NEWS

[PPsR6]

not sure if link is too long to work on here but its under the news section of MCN - ol' Ken has said that bikes aren't going to be hit

thank god i dont drive to work - £8 per day? ouch

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.a rticle&resourceId=2090840&articleCategory=NEWS_OTHER-NEWS

I read the same. We can all sleep easy now.

[nori1000]

well at least till after the election in may