Nothing wrong with cutting down on congestion,though in other cities what
has worked is occupancy within the cars.What they do is that they have
cameras (similar to the speed cameras here) that take a picture of the
car,and within certain hours of the day (7am-7pm) any car that has more than
2 seats (ie Smart Cars would be exempt for example) that have les than 3
passengers are ticketed/fined/sent a bill for carrying less than the alloted
3 passengers with the exception of motorcycles,cabs,commercial vehicles
(read in delivery vans/company vehicles on call/or applied for exemption) or
similar types of vehicles.Seems to me that would work equally as well in
reducing the congestion within London.Just a thought of what I've seen work
elsewhere.
Glen

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I was an only child.....eventually!
"Trev" trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet wrote in message
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"gay merrington" wrote in message
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London Transport is a joke,as is Ken Livingston,and the congestion
charge
is
(was) meant to decrease the amount of cars....Or have we forgotten???The
joke being that if there is more than one person in the pod,to decrease
congestion IN the pod,he adds an extra charge.....Geez I didn't think
the
Canadian sense of humour was THAT different to the English,or should I
have
used the Canadian to British translation book again? GRIN
Glen

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The joke is that the congestion charge worked. It did reduce the amount of
cars so well that they are not getting in the money.


I was an only child.....eventually!
"Geordie the Forgery" wrote in message
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"Geordie the Forgery" wrote in message
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"JB" wrote in message
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"gay merrington" wrote in
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Recently Mayor Ken Livingston wanted to settle the dispute over the
London
Eye by saying he'll take care of things himself if given control
......Does
that mean he'll add a congestion charge to every pod that has more
than
one
person in it much as he's done with the congestion charge in
London?
Glen


Hu? The London Congestion charge is based on vehicle occupancy?
I've
never heard that before.


Neither have I.
As far as I was aware, it was based on the vehicle.


PS
What is this doing on :-
uk.rec.humour?

(Apart from the fact that London Transport *IS* a joke!)