Arf!The congestion charge, in London at least, whilst being a good idea in theory, was never going to work. The people who drive into the city during the hours it operates are either people who have to do it for work, like service engineers etc, or they are people that are so wealthy that paying an extra £8 a day is never going to bother them in the slightest.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Fri 12 Dec 2008, 12:26,
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but it does worktraffic is down and so is pollution, the statistics speak for themselves.
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Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on,
Fri 12 Dec 2008, 14:05,
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