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Posted by David (94SEL) on June 07, 2002 at 13:09:43:
In Reply to: What are your feelings on...... posted by Lordrandall on June 07, 2002 at 12:26:23:
£5 per day to drive into the centre of London Monday to Friday 7.00am to 6.30pm from next 17th February. £120 fine if you don't pay. The good points: It would encourage people to use public transport, and not drive in the middle of town: Er... That's it. The bad: I can't describe how horrendous driving in C. London traffic is. Because I don't do it. And not only because I've got a VG auto bastard tranny; However bad driving is, public transport is worse. Slow, unreliable, filthy, unbelievably expensive, and operating way past capacity already; Living on the border of the £5 zone is going to be hell. Your road will become a back-double, (rat-run?) or an open-air car-park (remember, garages for London houses are rare. A garage can be yours for about £60,000. Yes, that is "by itself." Anyone with an ounce of sense would have developed a cheap efficient public transport system first so that motorists would have some incentive to use it, instead of being priced off the roads, and onto something you should by rights be PAID to use. This being Great Britain, we will of course dutifully line up, lower trousers and touch our collective toes like we always do. (Er, that "we" does not include the immediate readership, of course...) I must stop, foam appears to be flecking the front of my shirt...
Good theory, crapheaded execution.
: Fees charged via. a remote locator device. I heard in some parts of England they are thinking of using this to reduce traffic on busier streets.