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Article: ANALYSIS: Road pricing alone will not ease road congestion; Last month The Birmingham Post and NEC's Big Debate deliberated congestion charging. Today Alan Wenban-Smith argues jammed roads are too complex an issue to be solved by pricing alone.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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Byline: Alan Wenban-Smith
The Government wants to reduce congestion, saving millions of hours in traffic jams, worth billions of pounds to the economy.
Road pricing will achieve this, they say, by changing people's travel habits: driving on congested roads at peak times will cost more, so people are likely to change to less pressured times, less travelled routes, public transport, walking and cycling - or perhaps even choose destinations closer to home or work.
At last month's NEC/Birmingham Post Big Debate on road pricing, views on the Government's road pricing ideas ...