By Jim Symcox on Dec 11, 2008 in Manchester, Manchester City Council, Manchester Congestion Charge, Manchester Council, Manchester Road Tax | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 4, 2008 in Congestion Charging, Manchester, Manchester Congestion Charge, Manchester Motoways, Manchester Road Tax | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 20, 2007 in Manchester Bloggers, Manchester City, Manchester Congestion Charge, Manchester Road Tax | 2 Comments
When the Manchester Evening News reports on a leak of a poll conducted by NOP I was interested to find that the leak shows that 57% agreed with the congestion charge when it was related to the ?3 billion cash for public transport.
There’s lies, damned lies and Statistics. And in particular statistics relating to [...]