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.
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.