Lucy Powell, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Manchester Withington, has produced a great new video in support of the Manchester congestion charge plan, which is due to be voted upon on 11 December 2008. Thanks to Theo’s blog for bringing it to our attention. Watch the video.

Manchester City Council must want their collective heads read. They want to introduce a congestion charge into a city that compared to London is not congested at all. Indeed, over the last four years, congestion has fallen! It's clearly just a scam to fleece both individuals and businesses of yet more of their hard earned money. But they might not get their own way. A cross party anti congest...

On Friday I joined Peter Roberts of the Drivers’ Alliance and Sean Corker of MART (Manchester Against Road Tolls) to campaign against the Manchester congestion charge in the run-up to the 11th December referendum. We travelled around Greater Manchester visiting...

Greater Manchester is currently holding a referendum on the proposed congestion charge. That TaxPayers’ Alliance has been actively campaigning against the new charge for some time. Now, Stockport council (one of the councils in the Greater Manchester area) is running...

Voters in Greater Manchester have turned down proposals which would have seen the introduction of a major congestion charge scheme in the city.

According to reports from the Labour Party conference, Bristol Council leader Helen Holland announced her intention to pursue a bid for Government support to introduce congestion charging in Bristol.According to one report this will be a joint bid for funding with Bath, which would also fall under a congestion charge system.Why on Earth the Labour council leader thought Manchester was the place

The BBC has announced that the voters in Manchester rejected the congestion charge   .

The battle over plans to introduce Britain's biggest congestion charge zone in Manchester have begun in earnest as opponents have hit out at the proposed referendum as unbalanced and incomprehensible. Of particular concern is that the congestion charge is not even mentioned on the proposed ballot paper. The referendum question reads: "Do you agree with the Transport Innovation Fund proposals?...

Manchester has voted overwhelming against a local congestion charge, similar in style to the charge in London. Over a million people voted in the ballot which had a high 53% turnout. The charge, together with a massive injection of cash from national government, would have meant massive investment in public transport and infrastructure, oh, and the ability to get from place to place in a reasonabl...

Mancunians are to find out whether a congestion charge will be introduced as the results of a referendum on the issue are issued.