Apparantly traffic jams and rush hours cost this country £1.9 billion.
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/14/utrans.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/03/14/ixport.html"target="_blank">£1.9 Billion
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> Apparantly traffic jams and rush hours cost this country £1.9
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You beat me to it Jonathan.
So after all this time of slowing motorists down at every opportunity by making buslanes, adding speed bumps and all manner of other apparatus and landmarks designed to make driving difficult we are now being told of the loss of all the money caused by us being in jams!
I notice the proposed answer is congestion charging... Anyone see the irony here???? Clever...
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How much di that survey cost anyway? Probably about £1.8 billion!
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How naive from our local Philippines press!!!!!
And yet London can't hold a candle when it comes to Manila traffic congestion, so I guess I can see why the local journos snapped it up!
follows.......
Mayor of London Favors Bikes to Reduce Congestion and Pollution in the City.
London's Mayor Ken Livingstone has announced that he?s going ahead with plans to charge drivers £5 a day to use central London roads. Motorcycles and scooters will be exempt from the charges so the £25 a week saved will make motorized two wheel transport a very desirable thing for Londoners.
The area concerned is circumscribed by a ring road running from King?s Cross station in the north to Elephant and Castle in the south, Victoria station in the west to Fenchurch Street in the East. It covers around eight square miles.
The rule will apply 7am to 6.30pm each week day. It is due to be implemented from February 17, 2003. Sales of scooters and motorcycles are expected to rise significantly while traffic congestion and pollution levels could drop to a fraction of what they are now. Are you reading this Mayors of the Philippines?
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