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The Tif referendum result was announced with every single borough giving the proposed congestion charge the thumbs down.
The former deputy prime minister claimed a 'yes' vote would be 'common sense for the health and economy of a great European city'.
Figures showed that with three days to go before polls close, only 38.2 per cent of people have bothered to vote.
The MEN contacted the 28 MPs who represent Greater Manchester constituencies and asked whether they would be voting in favour of plans to create charging zones in exchange for a massive investment ...
The United boss said the promise of billions of pounds in return for the charge was a 'once in a lifetime opportunity to put Greater Manchester in the premier league for public transport'.
HEATED exchanges fuelled the MEN's congestion charge debate as leaders of the two camps made a last-ditch bid for victory.
Information packs, which include voting slips, are being sent out to homes from today, with all 1.9m scheduled to be delivered by the end of this week.
THE man in charge of Greater Manchester's congestion charge referendum is being paid up to £600 a day. Sir Neil McIntosh, who will oversee the count and came up with the question people will be...
Following their commuter route towards Manchester on a dawn patrol with a team of the agency's traffic officers - watching how they improve safety on the region's motorways while cutting congestion...
The Co-op and the TUC pledged their support for the bid to create two toll zones and secure nearly £3bn of transport funding from the government. They bring the total number of employers in sup...
PRESENT and past leaders of Manchester council - Sir Richard Leese and Graham Stringer MP - will go head-to-head in the M.E.N's congestion charge debate.
Drivers looked baffled as the anti-charge protester, who gave his name as Colonel Kevin Peel Saunders, handed them leaflets dressed in a fancy dress chicken costume
THE government's new transport boss told a Manchester audience that the region had shown 'courage, vision and commitment' with its approach to cutting traffic levels.
AN advert about the crunch congestion charge vote has been shown during The X Factor as part of a £1m information campaign.
Peter Fuller, 64, stands at junction 17 of the motorway, near Bury, with a home-made sandwich board saying `your £30 per week congestion charge starts here'.
The stars of the larger-than-life posters for the congestion charge Yes Campaign are discovering the advantages of their celebrity status.
GREATER Manchester's congestion charge referendum will go ahead as planned after a crunch vote today . Leaders of the region's 10 councils voted to accept a draft question and ballot pack designed...
THE proposed ballot paper that is likely to be used in Greater Manchester's crunch congestion-charge referendum is revealed.
THE consultation into the proposed congestion charge received more ‘negative’ responses than ‘positive’ – sparking a row over the figures.
BUS fares across Greater Manchester will be capped if congestion charging is brought in.
People will simply be asked in the referendum: 'Do you agree with the proposals?'
The Confederation of British Industry said it was `supportive of the principle' behind the region's bid for a transport package of more than £2.7bn in return for a weekday, peak-hour charge.
THE leader of the 'yes' campaign in the congestion charge referendum has lashed out her opponents - claiming they are not considering public transport benefits.
Employees of cereal giant Kellogg's, which has a key site in Trafford Park, have been sent emails suggesting they can 'cut and paste' reasons to object to the controversial scheme from a anti-charg...
A WAR of words erupted today over congestion charging in Manchester when a business pressure group `rubbished' claims by supporters of the measure who said that non-road users would be unaffected f...
A THINK-TANK of business leaders has thrown its support behind the proposed Transport Innovation Fund investment in Greater Manchester.
BACKERS of a Greater Manchester congestion charge launch their `Yes' campaign ahead of a region-wide referendum.
THE ring of the proposed Manchester congestion charge zone should be moved to save families and businesses thousands, according to Oldham Council.
An online survey carried out by onepoll.com discovered that more than seven out of 10 drivers find themselves stuck in the jams once a day.
A campaign began for a business-only referendum on plans to introduce congestion charging across Greater Manchester, in addition to the public vote due to take place in December.
The M.E.N obtained the full polling data - including the results of interviews with 1,002 businesses across the region.
Eight areas chosen to try different types of systems that could be used for local congestion charging schemes.
A survey of more than 5,000 people shows 53 per cent support plans to use the peak-hour charge to help fund massive investment in public transport. A total of 40 per cent say `no', seven per cent a...
JUST ten per cent of weekday motorists would pay a Greater Manchester congestion charge, a new study claimed. The figures were published to reveal how the finances of the proposed scheme have bee...
Leaders of the 10 local councils have agreed that a referendum should take place on the controversial proposal.
THE first of the public consultations on the proposed congestion charges attracted just 44 people.
All cabs will be exempt from Greater Manchester's planned congestion charge.
Full details of the plan to bring in road charging in return for £3bn spending on public transport were published for the first time - on the opening day of a 14-week consultation period.
CONGESTION charging has got the thumbs down from the majority of people in Greater Manchester. A new survey by Populus found 62 per cent against the road toll and 86 per cent want a referendum bef...
The Government gave the green light to Greater Manchester's £3bn plan to revolutionise public transport - but only if a controversial congestion charge scheme is introduced.
A bid to give Bolton voters a referendum on the congestion charge on May 1 has been defeated.
Transport chiefs pay more than £6.5m of local taxpayers' cash to help draw up a request for money from the Transport Innovation Fund.
Bury councillors called for a Greater Manchester-wide referendum on congestion charging. They also passed a motion stating that the council would be `against the Transport Innovation Fund Bid if c...
Greater Manchester's 10 councils to introduce a majority voting system for key decisions - which could include the congestion charge.
Plans to have two pay-as-you-drive areas - an outer ring and an inner ring - had already been unveiled. But now a third ring, around the inner relief road, which includes the Mancunian Way, was pro...
Rush-hour drivers on the busiest roads will pay £5 a day in charges. There will be an outer cordon, roughly following the M60, and an inner ring around the heart of the city. Charges for passing th...
The Manchester Evening News commissioned an independent survey to find out what people feel about congestion charging and discovered that 64 per cent of people think charging is a bad idea.
The newspaper surveyed 1000 people living right across Greater Manchester by telephone. Of the people polled, 41% regularly travelled by car or motorbike and 35% used public transport.
Signatures on a national petition to Downing Street against the topped one million over the weekend.
SPLITS over proposed congestion charges for Manchester have emerged as MP for central Manchester, Tony Lloyd, backed the scheme - in direct opposition to colleague Graham Stringer.
Members of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities met up to approve plans for a pay-as-you-drive scheme which is aimed at reducing traffic on busy commuter routes. But even though thei...
Business in the UK is at "breaking point" because of the state of the road network, according to a poll of more than 1,300 bosses by the British Chambers of Commerce.
A report drawn up by Sir Howard Bernstein, chief executive of Manchester council says up to 30,000 new jobs could be at risk through jammed roads in the next decade.
CONGESTION charging will be the price of extra money for the Metrolink tram system, the Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander insists.
MR Sherriff, transport spokesman for Manchester Friends of the Earth, said the decision to move towards congestion charging is the right one.
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announced that Manchester was among seven areas to have successfully bid for funding to start the work into congestion charging schemes.
Councils in Greater Manchester say they could look at London-style congestion charging to beat gridlock on the roads.
MOTORISTS driving into London face a sharp rise from £5 to £8 in the daily congestion charge. A pressure group, the Forum of Private Business (FPB), will mark the increase by handing a petition of ...
The £61,000 investigation, commissioned by Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority, starts. It will take up to a year to map out the worst congestion hotspots.
The £61,000 investigation, commissioned by Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority, starts. It will take up to a year to map out the worst congestion hotspots.
Knutsford-based Forum of Private Business, which represents approximately 25,000 businesses employing more than 600,000 people, says introducing congestion charging schemes in towns and cities acro...
CBI chief Sir Digby Jones has pledged to do all he can to help the Metrolink extension get back on track.
Roger Jones, chairman of Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority, said: "In the past we have discussed setting up a commission to investigate the issue of congestion charging in principle ...
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