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Originally Posted by Damien
Also what isn't being said about that is that Boris scrapped the congestion charge extension and the increased fee for 4x4/other gas guzzlers so Boris did in fact cause a drop in revenue into the future transport budget. You can't cut money making schemes and then blame the person before you that the budget isn't balanced.
I have no doubt Ken Livingston didn't want to increase fares and hence was looking at other ways to raise the money (such as schemes mentioned before) in order to make public transport a better alternative. Boris is taking a different approach I guess.
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That's politicians for you eh?....