The inner ring encloses an area stretching from Westminster to Barbican, Marylebone to Southwark. It's roughly 2 miles in diameter, and maybe 3 square miles in area.
Most of those streets were set down and plotted out before America existed. It has been congested with so much traffic, for so long, that they've been digging under it for a hundred and fifty years. There are over thirty subway stations inside the inner ring. At any point inside there, you are never more than about 900 feet (3 football fields) walking distance to a subway.
Most of the streets are narrow enough that you can EITHER have two lanes OR one lane and parking. Short of burning the whole area down and condemning the land it cannot be fixed.
The only solution is to say "no fucking cars, period", which is what they'll eventually have to do.
Saying "no fucking GAS cars" is just staving off the inevitable for another couple years.
Saying "no fucking GAS cars" is just staving off the inevitable for another couple years.
It's virtue signaling. Notice that this is what politicians always do. They either do nothing to solve a problem, making meaningless statements and gestures, or they take some extreme or off-base action that pleases one part of the electorate but completely misses the mark or is a temporary fix at best.
Mmmmm in London I still believe it's ultimately about wealth.
Linking it to eco cars WILL NOT meaningfully reduce traffic in the CCZ, it'll just increase eco car ownership in the CCZ.
Sooner or later, someone at TfL and the GLA will have to bite it and say "no private cars, period", and the rich will get them fired. Saying just eco cars is just staving it off a few more years.
The solution you're proposing would just take all of the congestion in inner London and move it, spreading it around an area with a much larger population. Banning things doesn't solve problems: it just makes those things into someone else's problem.
The suggestion I'm proposing was seriously floated back when the Congestion Charge Zone was initially proposed twenty years ago.
The fact that the CCZ failed to achieve adequate reductions in traffic vindicate the arguments for more absolute measures.
Linking it to environmentalism is just a carve out to placate the rich so THEY can drive in the inner ring, when it would be fairer and more effective to go for a total private vehicle ban in the inner ring.
You ever been to London?
You ever been out of it?
I'm from Iowa.
I'm gonna describe for you the London Inner Ring.
The inner ring encloses an area stretching from Westminster to Barbican, Marylebone to Southwark. It's roughly 2 miles in diameter, and maybe 3 square miles in area.
Most of those streets were set down and plotted out before America existed. It has been congested with so much traffic, for so long, that they've been digging under it for a hundred and fifty years. There are over thirty subway stations inside the inner ring. At any point inside there, you are never more than about 900 feet (3 football fields) walking distance to a subway.
Most of the streets are narrow enough that you can EITHER have two lanes OR one lane and parking. Short of burning the whole area down and condemning the land it cannot be fixed.
The only solution is to say "no fucking cars, period", which is what they'll eventually have to do.
Saying "no fucking GAS cars" is just staving off the inevitable for another couple years.
It's virtue signaling. Notice that this is what politicians always do. They either do nothing to solve a problem, making meaningless statements and gestures, or they take some extreme or off-base action that pleases one part of the electorate but completely misses the mark or is a temporary fix at best.
Mmmmm in London I still believe it's ultimately about wealth.
Linking it to eco cars WILL NOT meaningfully reduce traffic in the CCZ, it'll just increase eco car ownership in the CCZ.
Sooner or later, someone at TfL and the GLA will have to bite it and say "no private cars, period", and the rich will get them fired. Saying just eco cars is just staving it off a few more years.
The solution you're proposing would just take all of the congestion in inner London and move it, spreading it around an area with a much larger population. Banning things doesn't solve problems: it just makes those things into someone else's problem.
The suggestion I'm proposing was seriously floated back when the Congestion Charge Zone was initially proposed twenty years ago.
The fact that the CCZ failed to achieve adequate reductions in traffic vindicate the arguments for more absolute measures.
Linking it to environmentalism is just a carve out to placate the rich so THEY can drive in the inner ring, when it would be fairer and more effective to go for a total private vehicle ban in the inner ring.
So you are from Iowa yet you are the "leading expert" in all things London? Right.