[sustran] Re: Google Alert - Stockholm congestion-charge OR congestion-pricing OR road-pricing OR road-charge

[Eric Britton]

T <http://www.transportenvironment.org/Category7-All.html> &E Bulletin:
Constitutional <http://www.transportenvironment.org/Article269.html>  reform key
to reinstatement of city charge

Oct 25, 2006   

Negotiations are continuing on reinstating Stock-holm's congestion charge after
last month's local referendum and parliamentary election. 

In the referendum, the citizens most affected by the charge voted in favour of
it being made permanent after a seven-month trial earlier this year. But because
under Sweden's constitution it cannot come into effect without approval from the
national parliament, and as the ruling red-green national coalition lost its
majority on the same day, confusion has reigned over whether the charge will be
reinstated.

Two weeks after the election, the new national centre-right coalition, whose
biggest party opposed the whole idea of charging, surprisingly announced plans
to reinstate the charge but to use the revenue to fund the building of a
controversial by-pass west of Stockholm instead of improvements to public
transport, as most has expected. This plan received a hostile reception, but it
is likely that some sort of charge will be reintroduced within a year.

In addition, the new government announced that a committee reviewing the
constitution will be instructed to deliver a proposal for an amendment that will
pass responsibility for congestion charging from parliament to local
authorities. 

This news story is taken from the October
<http://www.transportenvironment.org/Downloads-req-getit-lid-441.html>  2006
edition of T&E Bulletin. 

 

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