| Comment | The relatively recent boom in bus ridership London since around the early 2000s, coincided with the introduction of the congestion charge.
In a sense you're right that anti-car policies work (or at least are easier to implement) in cities with already good public transport provision... Although it's also something of a two-way street in terms of cause and effect. Good public transport systems are generally supported by simultaneous single-occupancy-vehicle limiting measures.
Policies which limit congestion on roads, including congestion charges and road pricing, help make bus transit more efficient and more attractive as an option to commuters.
London's a good example of this, where efforts to limit car traffic vastly improved bus performance, and so public perception of it as a mode of transit.
https://www.ft.com/content/cce1749f-c50f-4ca6-af59-0cf33c2363b2 |
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