London Traffic Delays Cost $6.8 Billion a Year, Panel Says
- Lawmakers propose shift to road-use pricing from flat fee
- Current congestion charge ‘too blunt’ to tackle problem
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Traffic delays cost London 5.5 billion pounds ($6.8 billion) a year, a panel of city legislators said, recommending sweeping changes to the capital’s congestion charging program.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should replace the current flat fee drivers pay to enter the capital’s congestion charge zone with a road pricing program, the London Assembly Transport Committee said on Thursday in an e-mailed report. The new program should charge people more for using the most congested roads, at the times when traffic is greatest, they recommended.