Road User Charging - Another secret consultation, and it's TERRIFYING

We thought the ULEZ expansion was bad... well this new consultation makes ULEZ look like a picnic. The London Assembly have an open consultation on Road User Charging. I took a look at what this means, cross referencing what they want to do against a 2019 report done by Centre For London... and that report was financed by none other than our friends at C40 Cities.

What all of this means is we are looking at replacing road tax and fuel duty with one central digital smartphone account that will charge you 'Movement Credits' for every journey - and this isn't just limited to cars. When you combine this new Road User Charging consultation with the Digital ID consultation and the Digital Currency Consultation we have the frameworks for a tyrannical future where our movements are tracked and limited in every possible way. This is bad. This is very, very bad.

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There are 3 vitally important consultations going right now:

- Digital ID (closes March 1st)
- Road Charging (closes March 10th)
- Digital ££ Pound (closes June 7th)

I have made the following PDF to show you how to respond to all three, and given some sample replies. It's easy to download, so please get your responses in! Everything you need is in this PDF:
https://bit.ly/3xConsultationHowTos

Please get this shared, it's vitally important that we do our bit.
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ALL OTHER LINKS AND REFERENCES ON ROAD CHARGING:

PDF ON ROAD USER CHARGING
Road User Charging - Call for Evidence February 2023 (PDF)
https://bit.ly/RoadUserChargingConsultation

PDF ON THE 2019 'CITY MOVE' BASICS
Centre for London Green Light Summary:
Bring road user charging into the digital age
https://www.centreforlondon.org/reader/green-light/summary/

CONTACTS - CENTRE FOR LONDON
hello@centreforlondon.org
press@centreforlondon.org

CONTACTS - LONDON ASSEMBLY
Eleanor Haigh, Acting Senior Policy Advisor
eleanor.haigh@london.gov.uk

Emma Bowden, External Communications Officer
Emma.Bowden@london.gov.uk