The Manchester Evening news is screaming about congestion charge plans every day. Letters sent to the editor usually nag about how much money it would cost drivers and how business would go down. Though I'm not in favour of it per se, I cannot stand the nagging anymore. Here's my letter to the editor.

As a cyclist and bus passenger (a road charge freeloader then) daily travelling 30 miles between Salford and Wythenshawe, I've sofar not whined about spending 4 hours on buses each day. But the rants of the wheelieboxed nags have become unbearable. Public transport costs me the same as the proposed charge, despite it being so slow I can get to work faster on a pushbike. With your own motor, you're faster and free. From the top level of a bus it's quite clear the inefficiency of cars causes holdups, on their own taking enough road space to fit 4 cyclists or half a bus - and occupying it poorly. In a queue you're blethering sheep trying to roar, but think of yourselves free-roaming cattle please. By all means have the liberty to hug kerbs and bus lanes, to idle or park where you like, to brake only for cameras and to try killing the likes of me. It's about time you start paying for the pleasure though, so I could get a move on too.