Make them pay
London started charging people to take their cars into central London, and guess what?
It worked. Fewer cars now enter the charging zone, public transport use is up, travel time is quicker for all road users and the money made from charging drivers is going towards improving public transport even more. What is wrong with this picture? Nothing, which is why other countries are looking at the London experience as a way forward for car-choked cities. Read this success story at
http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/results.chtml?filename_num=00923.
Posted by belinda at October 22, 2004 01:53 PM