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Employees face paying hundreds of pounds a year to park at work under a scheme that shows signs of expanding across the country. Tough measures to tackle traffic congestion allow local authorities to tax companies with car parks. It is expected that businesses will pass on the charges to their staff. In addition, the Treasury is considering whether workers' parking spaces could be considered as a "benefit in kind" on which they could be taxed.
13:13, 16 Jan 2008 by Matthew Rees

Mr Livingstone says if re-elected as London Mayor in May, he would remove the time limits on the Freedom Pass. Freedom Pass holders are currently allowed to travel for free on public transport only after 9am.

13:11, 16 Jan 2008 by Matthew Rees
A series of pilot road-pricing schemes moved forward yesterday when the Department for Transport awarded £3.17m in extra funding to local authorities to develop programmes of pay-as-you-go charging. Of the new "pump-priming" funds, £1.5m will go to Greater Manchester, £1m to Cambridgeshire and £675,000 to the West of England partnership covering Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas.
13:08, 16 Jan 2008 by Matthew Rees