Well if they do introduce this scheme then it is within all our powers to sabotage the technology and run a campaign of civil disobedience, but in order to avoid riots, we need to stop this before it starts so let us see who is going to stand against the scheme in the elections and let's vote them in regardless of the colour of their politics (they are all the same anyway).

MCC the caring council,why dont they stop wasting money by building houses then knocking them down five years later,or stop building shopping precincts like beswick and then within ten years they knock it down owing millions in mortgage.They must still owe millions from the flats they knocked down on grey mare lane.This building madness must stop?Then maybe they would have the money for a transport system.TOTAL MADNESS

Jake Long, Manchester, City Centre
Youve hit the nail on the head jake lets vote this lot out council and government .

Transport chiefs approved the tolls plan? As they want to force cars off the road, it would have been news if they had voted no!!!
There is already a group opposing this and similar charges on drivers, you can find them on Google if you put in "no tolls". They have a petition against all these charges. PPLLEEAASSEE sign it.

Bo your spot on , MCC are not interested in ordinary Mancunians, they are typical "New Labour" and this smug council needs removing but sadly most mancunians are gulible and stupid and will continue to vote them in and let them continue in their not so merry way, snooping, money making schemes, back slapping et al.

Please will the M.E.N help us make a protest, we have had enough and need help to get the message accross as the local government is not listening to us, so we need to make them listen, all sit outside the town hall everyday all day until they say they will drop the congestion charge. does anybody agree with me

Road pricing

This is a terrible backward step
The city is only just recovering from the general run down caused by the City fathers prior to the bomb

To impose road charging in any form would deter people from visiting the city

What do they think when towns like stckport bolton and liverpool are just on the car driving publics route.

As in London the road charge would not be paid for by the user but in most cases by the employers of the car users.

The result of this is that the charge is paid not by Londoners or Mancunians but as with investemnts via the national lottery by every body outside the 2 conerbations.

In London this is a further hidden subsidy for the capital which is already heavily subsidised via the council charge.

This charge would over a period of years be expensive to administer resulting in higher and higher charges as ahppened with student loans

The city will die again but as usual we the poor public will be told by the great and the good that they know what is best for us

Paul

As many have said, we need to get these loony councillors out NOW or they will destroy Greater Manchester - use your vote wisely at all future elections and NEVER vote for someone who is in favour of tolls of any sort!

On reading article on congestion charges, I understand this is to improve public transport?? and to encourage people to leave their cars at home. I see that bus fares are going up by up to 70%. I for one refuse to pay more to sit on a overcrowded dirty bus. Using the metro is a nightmare at peak times, are the people who are making these decisions blind to this?More people being forced to use public transport will only make travelling to and from work even more stressful than it is already. I'm sure these decision makers will be leaving their cars at home.
I Think Not!!

I have now got an independant petition against congestion charging up and running at www.pledgebank.com/MancCCharge Please make your feelings known to Manchester City Council by signing it.

traffic is growing at an astonishing rate and the people who maintain the road networks are not keeping pace,at the moment the traffic lights are encouraging congestion ,this i think is underhand and trying to portray a false picture. for example the a56 is an extremely busy road , so is it prudent to have the lights staying on green for 18 seconds ? thats right 18 seconds, next time you are at a busy junction count the seconds and look how many are actually allowed to move trhough them. I am astonished that metrolink keep on demanding more money from the government,gmpte and local councils. when will metrolink agree to putting ticket collectors/assistant on every station, this will help on two counts ,security on the station for all passengers and also more revenue.ask the police how many people they have to escort off at dane road station on any friday night when a purge is tried out? is metro link paid for 2 inspectors per station for every hour that the trams are running at say £15.00 per man/woman per hour, they would make a fortune,take more people off the dole,and improve security ,and then the need to keep asking for more investment/money from the tax payers would not be needed, they have the opportunity to run a fantastic solvent business which would expand tremendously just by using a little thought.we dont need a congestion charge or traffic calming , we need better management of our traffic lights, wider roads ,better running of our tram system.to give another example, i travelled from sale taxi rank to manchester airport at 8.30 am on a tuesday morning,because of the lights and the stupid islands along northenden road, the 6 mile jorney took 1hr and 10 mins, would you call that acceptable ? please ,please, lets have some common sense included in any planning/changes affecting how our transport sytem should work.
remember the last time we had a power cut (no traffic lights worked) the traffic moved better than ever - what does that prove to you ?
regards
mike brown