I wonder (and doubt) if any Australian cities would feel the need to introduce a congestion tax. London and other cities charge people to come within a certain distance of the city center. Australia is going the complete opposite way and continues to build inner-city units each with atleast one car parking space.
Tuesday February 20, 2007
From Guardian (UK)
Tony Blair will tomorrow tell more than 1.6 million people who have signed an e-petition condemning his road pricing plans that the government intends to reject their views and go ahead with a series of pay-as-you-drive trials.
Downing Street insisted last night the prime minister had no intention of performing a U-turn in the face of complaints in Whitehall that the petition on the No 10 website has obscured rather than illuminated the arguments. "He recognises that there are strong opinions on this issue and that there were strong opinions even before the e-petition," the prime minister's spokesman said.
"Equally, however, he believes that congestion is something you can't do nothing about, you have to do something. The government is proposing the 10 pilot schemes to learn from experience about what is possible and what is not possible." The congestion charge introduced by London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, was "courageous and showed congestion should be challenged", the spokesman said. "Do nothing is certainly not an option. If you look at all the research and all the surveys on this, do nothing equals gridlock."
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