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Well tolling isn't going to go down well with drivers, and possibly make some of them turn to public transport.
It's the public as well though, lets face it. Here in Manchester the GMPTE/A have the princeable backing and funding to extend Metrolink to several cities, build several interchanges, revolutionise the bus network for the whole of Greater Manchester, introduce 80+ brand new trams, a brand new smartcard system similar to Oyster and most noteworthy is to increase the number of trains running in Manchester, with more capacity and more carrages.
The problem is this will be funded by a congestion charge, that is only £2 a day, only during peak times, during only the weekdays.
And of course the selfish millions who drive into the city every day in suits and four empty seats are like "loooolz no wai i want 2 pay 4 congestion chargings" so I fear the plan might just be scrapped.
I've made myself vocal in all possible ways supporting the new changes though, so hopefully good things might happen.
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