| Comment | Central London, famously a dead zone for business.
The basic point is that congestion charges and other efforts to reduce the presence of vehicles in cities provide massive benefits:
* freeing space for more efficient public transport to carry more people into the city centre. This is specifically about buses, but congestion is also what killed off Glasgow's trams. Tackling traffic and congestion is priority one if the planned trams which will be part of the Clyde Metro are to be viable.
* freeing space for people to walk, sit, relax, dine outside.
* reducing street level air pollution, again making the area more attractive and appealing for a range of business purposes. |
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