London : charge drivers levy for ‘needless trips to shops’

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Motorists could be charged to drive to the shops under plans backed by Sadiq Khan to discourage “needless” car use.

The Mayor has given his support to a call for London to introduce road-user charging, which would set a levy based on the distance and time of day travelled.

Supporters say that charging drivers to make journeys that could be walked, cycled or made by public transport would end decades of “the car being king”.

The idea has been proposed by Camden council transport chief Adam Harrison, who is overseeing the transformation of Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street into two-way streets that prioritise pedestrians and public transport.
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right we'll get our stuff from Amazon then !!:p
 
I hate visiting London for exactly the reasons they've stated, it's about time traffic was reduced to a more manageable level... Whereas towns and cities throughout the UK and Europe have introduced pedestrianised areas good old London centre is still a horrible place to walk.

He has my backing, i may even come and shop! (Though probably visit the museums instead!!)
 
Hmmm, great idea, and so well thought through.....

Personally I never drive in London anyway, but unless there is a nationwide change to road pricing, how is he going to be able remove vehicle excise duty on cars just in London so he can introduce road pricing? Oh wait, we all have to have 2 cars, one for London, and one for going to the rest of the country....
 
The ideal approach, would be a system of road pricing under which the charges for driving would vary according to the time of day and the location. Those driving in busy places would pay more, but the majority of journeys would be taxed less heavily than at present, the IFS said.

Road pricing has proved to be a hard sell with the public and the IFS said a second-best solution would be the introduction of a flat-rate tax per mile driven that would be used to supplement reduced revenue from fuel duties and help correct for the social costs of driving.

There was an advantage in acting quickly, the IFS warned, because it would be much harder politically to introduce such taxes only once the revenue from fuel duties had dropped much further and many people had bought hybrid or electric cars in the expectation of paying little tax on them.

Rebekah Stroud, an IFS economist and co-author of the report said: “Cuts to fuel duties over the last two decades have contributed towards revenues’ being £19bn a year lower than they would have been.
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looks like Sadiq Khan's comments to discourage “needless” car use have hit home in this newspaper report today.
 
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