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Old January 27th 05, 09:16 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Kiley wants road user charging in London


John Rowland wrote:
Why not just use cameras? I don't know what the road network is like

in
Melbourne, but in suburban London the overground railways, rivers,

parks and
segregated dual carriageways carve the suburban road network into a

large
number of small sectors with relatively few links between them, and

the

You are joking? Londons roads are a rats nest of backstreets , with
dozens
of different routes from any A to B. Even large roads like the north
circ
have numerous crossings , overpasses, underpasses and so forth. You
could
put cameras everywhere but as I said in another post , all this will do
is increase unregistered car numbers , plus cause huge resentment among
motorists who are already getting fleeced left right and centre by the
govn.

If you want to reduce traffic first stop the school run perhaps by
banning
parking outside schools to anyone except nearby residents and have a
tow
truck on standby in case someone takes a chance, and once you've done
that
you'll find rush hour traffic drop precipitously. Ask anyone whos
driven to
work during the school holidays.

B2003