{"id":477,"date":"2008-11-11T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-11-11T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:25:03","slug":"why-should-1-in-10-pay-when-they-wont-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/why-should-1-in-10-pay-when-they-wont-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should 1 in 10 pay when they won&#8217;t benefit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can argue until the cows come home about the accuracy of the &#8216;only 10% will pay the congestion charge&#8221; claim of the Yes Vote campaign (it&#8217;s 20% according to the TIF consultation brochure), but let&#8217;s play along.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-toll advocates say that it will only be 10% because others will be able to switch to a viable alternative (I can&#8217;t <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/response-to-manchester-congestion-charge-consultation\/\">as previously posted<\/a>). Following this logically through, this means that the remaining 10% are precisely the ones for whom the TIF proposals will not provide a viable public transport alternative.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, the yes campaign are happy to promote the notion that the improvements should be paid for by those who can&#8217;t benefit from them.<\/p>\n<p>How is that fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can argue until the cows come home about the accuracy of the &#8216;only 10% will pay the congestion charge&#8221; claim of the Yes Vote campaign (it&#8217;s 20% according to the TIF consultation brochure), but let&#8217;s play along. The pro-toll advocates say that it will only be 10% because others will be able to switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,64,45,14,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}