[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Great Minds

[Kathryn Cawte]

Ms. Tattersall
Begging pardon; what are congestion charges? Do you have to pay extra
to be stuck in traffic in London?


K

Well that would seem to be a good working definition of them :) There's an
area of central London (quite a large area) and if you want to go into it at
any point you have to pay a toll, if you don't pay within 24 hours it goes
up drastically I think, and then again if you haven't paid by the end of a
set period. There are cameras the whole way around the zone and they record
number plates of everyone who goes in. If you happen to get lost and stray
into it it's very annoying. If you have to go in every day it's very
expensive. Which since the government recently privatised the Tube since
when it's developed a distressing habit of falling of the rails and crashing
into walls makes it  not terribly popular.

K