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Commuters vote no
2:49pm Monday 17th November 2008
CONGESTION charging will be a disaster for peak time Metro commuters on the Altrincham line because of the overcrowding.
For ten years GMPTE have sat on their hands doing nothing about overcrowding, not even cheap fixes like removing some seats by the doors to make the standing area larger. There is a direct correlation between overcrowding and fares, just compare prices with the less crowded Eccles line.
Every time they put the fares up they lose some passengers but when they run at capacity they can afford to lose a few. Natural growth will fill the new trams by 2013, when we will be hit with a double whammy of fare increases because of overcrowding followed by congestion charge increases to drive commuters back into the trams. Commuters vote no!
Tim Haward, Sale
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wjt757, says...
11:30am Tue 25 Nov 08
Encouraging people out of cars and into more social forms of transport is desirable. However the limits of the current scheme in time and space are arbitrary and arguably dangerous.
There are two evening rush hours. The school run between 3 and 4 and the 'work run' between 5 and 6. Charging only after 4 will encourage those in the latter to join the former. Increasing traffic, particularly around schools and discouraging children and parents from walking or cycling.
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MattSleight, Altrincham says...
4:53pm Mon 17 Nov 08
I agree that increasing capacity only to deal with an increaased passenger base is not the solution. Charging peak time passengers extra for having to be squashed up against someone else's sweaty armpit, and wondering why we don't like them; isn't going to help us.
Double capacity + double usage = same congestion.
It might be worth driving instead as the roads would be slightly more quiet.