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Article: City road pricing scheme 'unlikely before 2005'
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 18, 1998
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ROAD pricing will not be introduced in Edinburgh until millions of
pounds worth of improvements have been made to public transport
throughout the south-east of Scotland, David Begg, the city's
transport convener, has promised.
His remarks come before the publication next week of a transport
white paper which will set out plans for radical changes in policy.
Mr Begg said that new rail and bus systems would need to be
established before restrictions, including charging drivers for
entering the city, could be imposed.
A recently-formed consortium of local authorities covering south-
east Scotland is drafting a GBP 500 million package of public
transport measures, Mr Begg said. The white paper ...