[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Congestion charges

[Kathryn Cawte]

 MsTatt


> In other words, you pay a fine for adding to the traffic congestion
> in that part of the city. (I hope no one in the Texas Department of
> Transportation is reading this and getting bright ideas.)
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K

Yes. And I believe the income from it is supposed to be spent on the scheme
itself and public transport improvements. The trouble is not the idea itself
so much as you have to pay the fines so that public transport can be
improved, but until it *is* you don't have any alternative to paying the
fines ... I know there is a school literally a few yards inside the zone,
the parents are not happy. And the teachers (who already don't earn enough
to even think of getting on the property ladder in London) are very very
upset - so of course people park in the surrounding streets, and skirt the
zone by driving down the (formerly) quiet streets just outside of the zone
instead of using the main cross London routes.

K