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Robert Ayres · 3/22/2020 7:27:00 PM

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Dear Mayor

How about scrapping the congestion charge for the duration of the pandemic crisis. As you have closed and reduced servicesto protect tfl staff quite right you have also made it very difficult for those who use the transport system to support their elderly and vulnerable family members. It would help many elderly carers on fixed income to be able to use a car without paying this charge. I also don't think there will be much congestion in central London for the duration of this plague.Or are you more interested in money than Londoners.

Robert Ayres ● 1969d4 Comments

From TfLStay at home.Do not travel unless your journey is absolutely essential.If you are a key worker and your journey is absolutely essential, the busiest times are 05:45-07:30 and 16:00-17:30. If possible, please avoid these times.The times data are useful and not quite what I expected (not that it affects me)

Guy Lambert ● 1965d

Too many people travelling at the same time. Some must be able to change.Too many people being required to work in a office when they can work from home. Sometimes the workers in the front line are better at sorting this IT out for themselves than the bureaucrats in the background.There are some essential maintenance services that have to continue on buildings.There are I understand a lot of tube staff that are ill, or self-isolating. The sooner there are tests widely available the better.

Philippa Bond ● 1965d

Great news, all he has to do now is stop crowding people together on the tube. Had a good suggestion from a friend of mine Michael Matthews get bus staff to open the windows on buses all the time to get some ventilation through them for the benefit of the passengers

Robert Ayres ● 1967d

He's ahead of you. Both he and Andy Burnham have now been allowed to join Cobra meetings.https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2020/march/tfl-suspends-all-road-user-charging-schemes-to-help-critical-workersThis is deliberately aimed at help critical workers get to and from work.

Philippa Bond ● 1969d