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CongestionchargebollocksBasically anywhere where a person or organisation has blamed the congestion charge when clearly it has nothing to do with their problems.
""We have had to extend our opening hours to offset the negative effect of the scheme on our business -- and we are not even in the zone," Joseph Wan, chief executive officer of the prestige department store Harvey Nichols told Reuters."
So let's get this right, Harvey Nichols has suffered because of the congestion charge? It's not even in the zone. Most of its customers -- certainly the ones who can afford to spend the daytime shopping rather than going to work -- almost certainly don't even have to cross the zone. And if they they did, would the charge really put people off going to a shop where you can't get a pair of jeans for less than £100? Near neighbours Harrod's sales were up 7%.
posted by Matthew @ 2/19/2004 09:15:00 AM
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