Kits
ULTIMATE Member
I feel that is the correct title after last nights evening news.
Manchester Transport sent out thousends of leaflets explaining the reasons for the charge and supposedly put real people from the area's views on why its a good idea. Now it turns out the pictures are models from America and transport chiefs made all the stories up.
More http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1010/1010798_ccharge_locals_dont_exist.html
I think they should all resign their posts after this and drop all thoughts of ripping us off with these charges.
Manchester Transport sent out thousends of leaflets explaining the reasons for the charge and supposedly put real people from the area's views on why its a good idea. Now it turns out the pictures are models from America and transport chiefs made all the stories up.
TRANSPORT chiefs have been accused of misleading motorists in a congestion charge leaflet sent to 2.5 million homes in Greater Manchester.
The leaflet - promoting the case for road pricing - includes four case studies to show how the scheme will affect real people who travel in the region. But the M.E.N. has learned that the four 'local people' were made up by transport officials and the pictures are of models who live in the U. S.
The leaflets feature `Terry', said to be a self-employed van driver from Rochdale. He is, in reality, a 22-year-old American model named Erich Dalke from Seattle, more than 4,600 miles from the congestion charge zone. Another example cites a woman named `Ann', described as a solicitor from Ashton under Lyne - but who is in fact a U.S. model called Kiki.
Their images, along with a mum-of-two named `Rachel' from Trafford and jobless `Neil' from Beswick, are all believed to have been bought from a U.S. internet modelling library.
PR chiefs admit no-one living or working in Greater Manchester was interviewed to produce the leaflet and the case studies were made up.
The GMPTA website - which originally claimed the four examples were based on `real people' - has been changed to say they are `fictional case studies based on accurate travel plans under current proposals'.
More http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1010/1010798_ccharge_locals_dont_exist.html
I think they should all resign their posts after this and drop all thoughts of ripping us off with these charges.























