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Congestion Charging in London

The Policy and the Politics

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  • © 2006

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  1. Martin G. Richards
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Mayor’s Challenge

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 1-8

  3. Why Charge?

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 9-26

  4. How to Charge?

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 27-43

  5. Highways and Traffic Restraint in London before the Mayor

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 44-59

  6. Experience around the World

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 60-81

  7. A New Beginning: the Blair Government, Congestion Charging and a Mayor for London

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 82-98

  8. The Formalities: The Mayor’s Transport Strategy for London and his Congestion Charging Scheme

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 99-113

  9. The Mayor’s Congestion Charging Scheme

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 114-124

  10. Implementing the Mayor’s Congestion Charging Scheme

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 125-142

  11. The London Assembly: Scrutinizing the Scheme

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 143-158

  12. The Critics, Doubters, Fence Sitters and Supporters

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 159-178

  13. The First Year

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 179-220

  14. Some Lessons Learned

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 221-231

  15. The Future

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 232-286

  16. Finally

    • Martin G. Richards
    Pages 287-289

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 291-303
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Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London on a platform that included a congestion charge for central London, a policy that became reality on 17 February 2003. Richards uses his experience as Director of a £2.5 million Government congestion charging study, as one of those who created the scheme Livingstone adopted and as advisor to the London Assembly, to provide a critical record of the introduction of the London Congestion Charge, and of its implications for congestion charging elsewhere.

About the author

MARTIN G. RICHARDS has over forty years of experience in transport planning. He retired as Chairman of The MVA Group, international transport planning consultants, in 2000. He was responsible for the Hong Kong Electronic Road Pricing Pilot Project planning studies, Director of the Department of Transport's London Congestion Charging Research Programme and a member of the ROCOL Working Group that developed the principles on which the London scheme is based, and advised the London Assembly on the scrutiny of the Mayor's congestion charging proposals. He was appointed an OBE in 1993 for services to transport planning.

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