I wish to object to the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy proposals.

I particularly object to any extension of the Congestion Charge. When he was after our votes last year, Sadiq Khan promised he would just maintain the Congestion Charge at its current level. 

He is not to be trusted with any new ways of paying for road use, such as powers to set the rate of road tax (VED). It is obvious that he would be after more money not less. The proposals would hurt many ordinary families.

I also object to the proposal to make councils force us out of our cars through traffic reduction measures. Public transport is already overcrowded, yet the plan seems to be to want an unnecessarily large population increase. This will just increase the pressure on public transport and road space. 

An alternative to local road pricing schemes was given as Workplace Parking Levies, which would be a tax on going to work. Whoever thinks up these ideas is simply on another planet.

These sweeping proposals could be very expensive, and of course Londoners would have to pay for them. Not even basic cost figures are given. They don't meet the legal requirement that people being consulted should be given enough information to make an informed decision.

Would it be too much to ask the Mayor to go back to the drawing board and ask London's many motorists what they actually want?