Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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The Boy Livingstone done good! (OK, OK, IMHO if you INSIST)
Bring on the day when Brighton has the balls to do the same. Yeah, Reclaim the Streets! A city one square mile across, give or take, that is served by a quality network of more buses and cabs than you can shake a stick at, really ought to be looking at kicking the private motorist into touch and out of town and asking questions after. Most selfish short-sighted tribe outside of maybe smokers. Mind you, seeing as how the gutless wonders in the council haven't even seen fit to pedestrianise London Road, thereby doing a grave disservice to pensioners, mothers with pushchairs, the infirm, or just anybody who objects to being hemmed in on a pavement for no good reason at all, I guess we shouldn't really hold our collective breaths eh?
Cue apoplectic howls of rage!
(from today's Evening Standard)
'C-charge is big success'
By Ross Lydall, Evening Standard, Local Government Correspondent
17 February 2004
Ken Livingstone today rejected the concerns of business as he hailed the results of the first year of congestion charging a major success.
The Mayor said the scheme had cut traffic delays inside the zone by 30 per cent and would not have a long-term effect on traders' profits.
Reviewing the charge on its first anniversary, he said its financial impact on central London had been "comparatively small" and the situation would improve as the economy picked up and tourists continued to return.
Publishing new research carried out by Transport for London, which oversees the scheme for the Mayor, Mr Livingstone revealed that the first 11 months have:
Cut delays by 30 per cent
Reduced the number of cars entering the zone by 30 per cent
Slashed delays by 60 per cent on buses serving the zone
Seen 110,000 a day pay the charge
Resulted in only "some small changes" to orbital traffic around the zone
Bring on the day when Brighton has the balls to do the same. Yeah, Reclaim the Streets! A city one square mile across, give or take, that is served by a quality network of more buses and cabs than you can shake a stick at, really ought to be looking at kicking the private motorist into touch and out of town and asking questions after. Most selfish short-sighted tribe outside of maybe smokers. Mind you, seeing as how the gutless wonders in the council haven't even seen fit to pedestrianise London Road, thereby doing a grave disservice to pensioners, mothers with pushchairs, the infirm, or just anybody who objects to being hemmed in on a pavement for no good reason at all, I guess we shouldn't really hold our collective breaths eh?
Cue apoplectic howls of rage!
(from today's Evening Standard)
'C-charge is big success'
By Ross Lydall, Evening Standard, Local Government Correspondent
17 February 2004
Ken Livingstone today rejected the concerns of business as he hailed the results of the first year of congestion charging a major success.
The Mayor said the scheme had cut traffic delays inside the zone by 30 per cent and would not have a long-term effect on traders' profits.
Reviewing the charge on its first anniversary, he said its financial impact on central London had been "comparatively small" and the situation would improve as the economy picked up and tourists continued to return.
Publishing new research carried out by Transport for London, which oversees the scheme for the Mayor, Mr Livingstone revealed that the first 11 months have:
Cut delays by 30 per cent
Reduced the number of cars entering the zone by 30 per cent
Slashed delays by 60 per cent on buses serving the zone
Seen 110,000 a day pay the charge
Resulted in only "some small changes" to orbital traffic around the zone