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Sadiq Khan Defends Congestion Charge Increase | Good Morning Britain

May 31, 2021
It is safe to travel on public transport in London if you maintain social distancing. We have ensured that on London public transport before even finishing the batch we were doing everything possible in relation to hospital grade antiviral disinfection. What do you want to do? Are you basing your certainty that it is safe? As long as you maintain social distancing, it's safe because we've done it with public transportation, whether it's buses, subways, trams, subways, bus garages, garages, bathrooms. We sure have improved the cleaning regimen, so we use the anti-preventive hospital style. On March 3 you appeared on this program and I asked you the same question.
sadiq khan defends congestion charge increase good morning britain
This is what you said. Sorry, it comes, there is no risk and use the subway, buses or others. forms of public transportation or going to a concert the expert advice is that sir, many times a day you say that in a city of 12 million inhabitants there is no risk since now we know you are here because I trust the advice I receive from public health England and the chief medical officer and the advice is that you are not going to get infected if you wash your hands regularly. The evidence we have so far is that it is possible to contain it and slow its spread when you said that and I challenged you at that time when Italy and Iran and other countries were being completely run over by the Corona bars, but you were sure that there was no problem with the safety of people and public transport, then you appeared a few weeks later at a time when nine bus drivers had died from the coronavirus, just take a look at what you said, then on several occasions we have sought advice from we are only public health England, not just a part of a transport, not only these fall for health, but also for the World Health Organization, what role does common sense have in this?
sadiq khan defends congestion charge increase good morning britain

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All I hear is politician after politician hiding behind advice and what I don't see enough of is common sense if nine bus drivers in London have died from coronavirus because every day they are sent to risk their lives without protective equipment Personally, if I were mayor of London I would make sure they had it and I wouldn't take any advice from anyone else and trust my instincts, these people need better protection. are dying the measures we are taking on the buses include the enhanced cleaning regime that I have talked about, which is not the advice originally, but we are doing this in addition to the advice you mentioned, common sense, so we are using antivirals. hospital disinfectant then when he assured us that he was taking all necessary measures to protect the bus drivers nine bus drivers who died how many have now died 29 of forced time and many of what your program colleagues and aware 3 with you intelligence They give money to my Thoughts and prayers I have written to all but 20, your thoughts and prayers, Mr.
sadiq khan defends congestion charge increase good morning britain
Mayor, I would like you to explain to people how it is possible that when they vigorously challenged you after nine bus drivers died and you assured people in London that you were doing everything you could to protect them, how come we can be talking now just a few weeks later and 29 bus drivers died and 43 people in total died at TfL, you didn't protect them, they continued to die to 29 bus drivers, that's under your supervision, what happened, we designed all our things, twenty-nine are dead, what we're also doing is that I tearfully asked for leading independent war experts to review everything we've done because I'm interested in knowing in real time what they have done and if there is more we should have done. done, but where there is more we can do, there is more you should have done, mr. mayor 29 bus drivers have died and we told you when you appeared on this program when nine had died you had to do more, we had interviewed the widow of a bus driver that same

morning

an incredibly powerful interview pleading with you as mayor to do the right thing protect the people who work on your public transportation system, you know, and then we go back to the first interview, Italy was being run over and you said no problem, come on public transportation, well, I know the same thing, okay , stay two meters away.
sadiq khan defends congestion charge increase good morning britain
What do you keep six feet away from in your system? You know this and I know that if you go on the subway this

morning

and everyone stays two meters apart, then you say that's what's happening and you say it's safe, but it's not happening and it's not safe and in relation with people working in public transport has become a death trap, which is why the first interview mentioned by Pairs was on March 3, at that time there were no significant community transmissions in the countries to the extent that Italy had closed. for example, at football matches, so that they knew that in Italy, where they were hit by the coronavirus, another European country, that many people nearby were dangerous, why did you, as mayor of London, not pay attention to the warnings from Italy and didn't do something? about this on public transportation instead of coming here and saying it's perfectly safe, just wash your hands thoroughly.
I arrived in June, on March 3, the day after a meeting with the deputy medical director in which these issues were raised, and on March 16, when I was first invited to Cobra, we discovered that there were significant transmissions of humidity and the advice changed and as you know a few days later we went into lockdown as far as public transport was concerned, not until March 16th when there were significant community transmissions a virus grew. You had to look at any other country in the world and you realized that there were obviously significant community transmissions. You hadn't seen what was happening in Italy or Iran, for example, no, no.
B all B where we were several weeks behind those countries, numbers behind those countries and doing something about it, but my question to you is the elected mayor of London, why, as I told you in those interviews, why the sense common did not work? and you actually did what you could see was happening in other countries here and you stopped people accumulating the way they did and as it turned out, they were killed and we did that when we were given the notice that there were significant transmissions of humidity on the 16th of March when I attended Cobra for the first time and what we have been doing in London is making sure that we are at the forefront in relation to the country, following the example of the device server, the public transport measures in London are above the The measures across our country and elsewhere are extensive and it breaks Eddie's heart and to reassure myself, but also Londoners, that is why this independent work commissions a report within the next two or three weeks to make sure that changes can be made because it is really important.
We do not wait. I am someone who has been calling for an independent public inquiry and the government should say they are going to have one coming at some point. Let's learn in real time. That's why we go. up in London, but I think we could go further, which is why I ask you: you don't know how these bus drivers died, you don't know why there have been such a staggering number of bus driver deaths during your tenure, you know One of the things that is still being investigated is whether there is a link with the occupation, some of the measures we have taken, but also if there is no occupation, it is for example, economic status, age, gender, ethnicity, It could have to do with a house. condition, so those are some of the things they need to investigate, but there has also been a quick report within two or three weeks to examine our measures.
What we have done so far is

good

enough, if not, what else should we do? and whatever they recommend, we will implement it. Let me ask you about the

congestion

charge

, because Boris Johnson has told people to avoid public transport to avoid

congestion

and to use the car or, better still, walk or cycle, so he encouraged people to use your cars, your immediate reaction to this announcement from the British Prime Minister was to reintroduce the congestion

charge

, extend the price to I think £15 a day, can you extend me and extend the hours until 10pm. at night and do it seven days a week, so in fact what you decided to do was listen to what the Prime Minister said about car use and make it incredibly punitive for people to do so, so why What let me complete the playback of the full image, which is the last one?
On Thursday we reached an agreement with the government, as you know, like other tribal authorities, we have been using our reserves to pay for our services because we have much fewer passengers, more than nine percent, one of the conditions that the government gave us . Granting and to last a car loan, one of the conditions of the government was that we immediately reinstate the congestion charge and the ultra-low emissions zone, but also one condition was that we expand the scope and level of the charges, so I am forced to do this as a condition of accepting the government grant and loan denies that Sadiq Khan, the Department for Transport has said that the government did not force you or TfL to

increase

the congestion charge as a condition of approving that bailout and the agreement to reintroduce well Can you tell us, I mean, is the government telling the truth about that or are you telling the truth about that?
By that I mean who is lying. I have Grant Shapps' letter here and it is very important with respect, I just have to explain. what this letter says sets out the agreement this package is subject to the conditions set out in this letter this funding package is conditional on TfL's agreement on the following conditions and I will read to you the immediate reintroduction of the London congestion charge and he said that we must present new and urgent proposals to expand the scope and levels of these positions in accordance with the relevant legal powers and is a who really set who set the figure of £15 who set the extended hours at nine who did it is the seven days of the week, the government or you, well the government says we have a broad stake in this girl, just ask who made those decisions about prices and hours and days, I'm sure you're crying, it's us, but it's you, but we'll widen the scope , let me. reduce the hours, yes, and you seem to love it, what you're doing is hanging out, but as you often do, mr. mayor, the reality is that you set the price of this congestion charge, you decided to do it until ten o'clock at night, you decided to run it on the weekends and my second question would be, obviously, a lot of the people who will be doing this, who will be using their cars to get to work maybe NHS staff they could be teachers they could be police officers firefighters all those essential workers I have to go to work now they have to pay this extra punitive charge seven days a week that you have implemented? your budget points, but please, the first point is a relationship with the expansion of the scope and the level of positions, you are the one who decided that we are going to build my own, the scope that you then read and simply tell me if all these They are essential.
Workers now have to pay these punitive extra charges to use their cars as the Prime Minister told them to use their car well and not public transport, if he had not widened the scope as I plan to do,

increase

the charges which would have had. in breach of the agreement I ask if all essential workers will have to pay it if it were to increase, so those who work in the NHS and those who work in care homes are too often in contact with vulnerable people who they might be shielding or might have underlying health conditions of a positive test are exempt from the status of teachers, police officers, firefighters, no, no, everyone is paying you well, the intention is for everyone else if they have to go to work.
When using their car, they have to pay the condition charge when changing one hundred hours a week.

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