Manchester Blog

The Royal Mail has promised to go around all the post boxes in the voting areas and get all votes posted by the last post today and then deliver them for counting at 10pm tonight. So if you want to vote you can! There seems to a lot of heat about the vote in the [...]

The Mail on Sunday has a very interesting article that if implemented in Britain would make the London and Manchester congestion charges obsolete. The article is all about how Audi has created a new in-car technology that "speaks" to upcoming traffic lights and checks and displays the speed to get you through on green. The [...]

The Manchester congestion charge supporters say that we’re intending spending vast amounts on improving the public transport infrastructure. However, Londoners (who already have a pretty good infrastructure) have recently asked for their congestion charge expansion area to be removed. London’s mayor has done just that, see the article in the Daily Mail. The reasons? Market [...]

24 costs that are likely to make a massive and continuing impact on Manchester citizens for a very long time

manchester congestion charging. The pro charge ads don’t paint a pretty picture of who is paying for it. Plus, what about the non-Manchester based commuters?

Copper thieves broke into the Heaton Park sub-station, about 150 yards from where we live and stole the copper neutral bars on Wednesday last week. Unfortunately even though they must have made a noise kicking one of the grills in no one was around because of the football match. Electricity Spikes Start Happening Around 9pm I [...]

I was minding my own business on the M60 car park the other day when I noticed a tiny car zip by in the middle lane. The thing that caught my attention was that it had a large pole stuck vertically up on the roof to which were attached what looked like 4 cameras. Then [...]

The final post from the Good Company article investigating Congestion Charging in Manchester. Looking at how charging may well benefit a number of companies.

Continuing the investigation into the effects of the congestion charge on business in Manchester.

The start of 3 posts exploring what the Manchester congestion charge will cost and its likely effects on Manchester business.