[sustran] [sustran] FW: TfL Press release - Congestion Charge Scheme (CCS)

[ktsourl at mailbox.gr]

I don't think putting private car users and public transit users in the same group is a good idea, when analyzing traffic issues. Actually they have much different features and respond in a completely different way to various regulations. The congestion costs imposed by a single-occupant automobile driver to the average bus rider could be better (and cheaper) avoided with dedicated bus-lanes, instead of sophisticated pricing systems.

Perhaps it was my fault, but I was quite misunderstood. I don't think that road pricing is a bad idea at all - on the contrary all the external costs of car use should be internalized (subsidies are appropriate  e.g. for education or health expenditures, not for private motor vehicles). But why, from all external costs, only congestion costs are considered, i.e. the only ones that bother motorists (and are imposed by themselves)? What about the costs of the damage in the health due to air pollution, the cost induced to pedestrians (delays, "barrier effect", accidents etc), the cost for the destruction of urban life, the waste of valuable land etc? Though it seems that motorists' convenience is the primary preoccupation of the TfL regulation, my reservations to this arrangement are rather of semantic than objective nature.



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