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Porsche FTW - London scraps £25 congestion charge

Posted Jul 8th 2008 at 9:34AM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Porsche, Legislation and Policy, UK


The battle over a proposed £25 Congestion Charge increase that would have been socked to big, dirty vehicles entering London is over. Porsche was the lead opponent of this fee increase, and announced the win on its Judicial Review website. I guess Porsche's huge PR campaign worked. Back when Ken Livingstone, who came up with the £25 congestion charge proposal, was still Mayor of London, the city announced that the majority was in favor of it. Porsche had other data.

The new mayor, Boris Johnson, was never in favor of the new C-Charge, so it's not a huge surprise that it's been scraped. He said he hopes the city will now institute a 'fairer and more effective' Congestion Charge. The agency responsible for the Congestion Charge, Transport for London, will now need to pay Porsche's legal bills. Porsche has said it will donate the money to Skidz, an anti-crime charity. h/t to TheRookie.

[Source: Porsche, What Car?, Times Online]

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Tags: c-charge, congestion-charge, porsche, porsche-co2, porsche-congestion-charge, porsche-london, tfl, transport-for-london

Porsche formally applies for judicial review in London C-charge scuffle

Posted Mar 12th 2008 at 5:16PM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Porsche, Legislation and Policy, UK


In the ongoing fight between Porsche and Transport for London over the increased emissions charges in that city (previous stories - in chronological order - here, here, here, here and here), Porsche has now taken another step towards requesting judicial review of the charge. Following TfL's rejection of an earlier request from Porsche about changing the congestion charge, Porsche is giving the Mayor's office three weeks to respond to this latest filing.

Porsche's side of the story is being told at Porschejudicialreview, a Porsche website. There's more after the jump.


Tags: c-charge, congestion-charge, congestion-charge-london, london, porsche, porsche-co2, porsche-london, tfl

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