Thank you very much for your support as we challenged
Mayor Livingstone’s proposed £25 congestion charge in London.
As you saw for yourself, the congestion charge was a major issue
in the mayoral campaign and the candidate who opposed this
extension, Boris Johnson, was elected Mayor.
I am pleased to inform you that, today, the Administrative Court
in London has approved a consent order quashing the increase to
the charge. The new Mayor’s legal team accepted that the
previous Mayoral administration should have taken into account
research from King’s College which showed that the new charge
would actually increase CO2 emissions in Greater London and,
consequently that the new charge could, in fact, be unlawful.
Porsche has always been confident that the legal case was right
and now we are proud to have played a decisive role in striking
down such a blatantly political tax targeting motorists.
It is expected that significant legal costs will be awarded and
Porsche has decided to donate those costs to a fantastic charity
called Skidz, which takes at-risk young people and trains them in
motor vehicle maintenance and mechanics. This gives them the
tools and confidence they need to find gainful employment and
avoid a life of crime.
The support from Porsche will allow Skidz to open a facility in
Hillingdon, providing this opportunity to young Londoners for
the first time.
If you have any further comments or questions, you can contact
Porsche directly by e-mail at [email protected] or
telephone 08457 911 911.
Thank you again for your support which was tremendously
encouraging and important to the challenge.
dont get me wrong a charge of £25 is ridiculous but why shouls smaller cars pay same as larger cars etc?
i would have gone for summat like smaller cars charge £5 and maybe larger £10 which i think is fair under existing con charges but i dont doubt that the rich would still not liek it and moan.
I think tobi was right, seem like tories looking after themselves again.
I am guesiing you would have happily stumped up the extra then? or are you one of those that wouldn’t have been affected ? as to lowering the congestion charges for smaller vehicles? get real! the whole point of the congestion charge was to drive people off the road via overcharging and thus reduce congestion and polution, it was never meant to be fair!
I think you are missing the point, for the rich people it wouldn’t have made any difference at all to pay the extra amount, the people who would have been hit would have been those who couldn’t afford a new smaller car, but still had a larger older car (to move kids about for example) the whole idea of a punitive charge was to appeal to people’s jealousy of others.it was a political move to appear to be doing something,without hurting livingstones core voters.As to the pop at the Tories? hello ! it was the courts that decided it was a bad move, not the Tories (even though they well of agreed)
