Congestion Charging

Telegraph

Capital idea or motorists' nightmare?

(Filed: 10/02/2003)

Success or failure will not rest on traffic speed alone but on the impact the experiment has on people's lives, reports Paul Marston

A week from today, the curtain rises on the biggest experiment in transport policy since the dawn of mass car travel half a century ago. When Big Ben strikes 7am, London will be transformed into a traffic planners' laboratory as decades of theoretical debate about rationing access to the public highway collide with the unpredictable dynamic of real human behaviour.

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