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London and cars - barney100

Apparently London is to make large areas of it's centre car free and the congestion charge will rise to £15.

London and cars - Sofa Spud

Hopefully it's permanent and other cities will follow.

London and cars - Andrew-T

What will we do with all the redundant car parks ? :-)

London and cars - groaver

Bike parks and shower stalls?

London and cars - 72 dudes

Apparently London is to make large areas of it's centre car free and the congestion charge will rise to £15.

Makes perfect sense, just as people are being encouraged to return to work and avoid all public transport.

London and cars - SLO76
Not sure now is the time for this as we’re all being advised to avoid public transport but having driven in cities across Europe I find it utterly pointless trying to take a car into almost any major city. They’re all pretty much gridlocked. As much as I don’t like restrictions on individual freedoms the only option for major cities like London is to restrict car use and encourage public transport and cycling.
London and cars - Avant

Hopefully one good thing to come out of this is that people will have fewer meetings, and therefore not need to travel so much because they can do more of their work from home.

A curse of modern society is that there is far too much time wasted in meetings. Either people sit round a table and make stupid decisions that none of them would have made on their own; or they disagree and don't come to a conclusion at all.

As we're in the motoring section, a couple of examples:

Smart motorways - I know there are arguments pro and con but clearly not enough proper research was done before the men in suits elected to have refuge areas 1.5 miles apart.

And going back a bit to the 1970s, some of us will remember the decision by 'suits' to abandon the well-known names of Hillman, Humber, Singer and Sunbeam to be replaced by Chrysler, and then Talbot. And then they wondered why sales plummeted.