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Most Cities Will Have To Introduce Congestion Charging, Say Experts At Global Transit Conference
Forbes“There’s an inevitability about [congestion charging],” the Commissioner of Transport for London told me on a metro ride on June 10. Mike Brown added that “it’ll come” even to those cities run by politicians who fear they would be slung out on their ears for even broaching such an idea.
“It wasn’t popular in London beforehand, either,” he pointed out. London introduced its congestion charge 16 years ago, with much of the resulting revenue spent on improving transit services.
Sweden’s capital Stockholm followed suit in 2007, and it was on Stockholm’s metro that I talked with Brown.
We–along with 15,000 others–were attending the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, organized every two years by the Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP).
“It wasn’t popular in London beforehand, either,” he pointed out. London introduced its congestion charge 16 years ago, with much of the resulting revenue spent on improving transit services.
Sweden’s capital Stockholm followed suit in 2007, and it was on Stockholm’s metro that I talked with Brown.
We–along with 15,000 others–were attending the UITP Global Public Transport Summit, organized every two years by the Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP).
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The typical American city is probably 20 years or more behind the curve on public transit. I know many western cities aren't. People love their cars too much.
