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Bus & Tube Zone Review

Dear Kennington Association members & local residents,

You may be interested in the following motion I put forward (and which was unanimously passed) at Wednesday's Full Council:

"In view of the impending imposition of a Congestion Charging Zone in the centre of London, part of which falls into the north of this Borough, this Council calls on the Mayor and Transport for London to undertake a comprehensive review of Tube and Bus Zones with a view to ending the current bias in favour of areas north of the Thames whereby Notting Hill Gate and Earls Court in west London (respectively 1 and 2/3 miles and 2 miles from the Congestion Charging boundary) fall within Tube Zone 1 whereas Kennington (1/6 of a mile from the boundary), Oval (1/2 a mile from the boundary), Stockwell (1 mile from the boundary) and Brixton (1 and 2/3 miles from the boundary) are all designated as Zone 2. This Council particularly condemns a situation in which Kennington residents are faced with a "double whammy" of both a £5 Congestion Charge on their doorstep and a two-zone Tube fare into central London"

Councillor Dinti Wakefield
Liberal Democrat, Prince's Ward
London Borough of Lambeth

Mail: Lambeth Town Hall, London SW2 1RW
Telephone: 020 7735 4648
E-mail: councillordw@yahoo.com

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