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London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @04:53AM from the click-whirr-click-whirr-click-whirr dept.

Vivek writes "BBC is reporting that Londoners will have to pay a 5 pound "Congestion Charge" starting Feb 17. According to this Times of India article, an Indian software firm called Mastek developed the .NET based software to implement the plan. In the absence of toll booths, it reportedly uses character recognition from 700 surveillance cameras to identify defaulting license plates." See our previous story for background.

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Re:Tubes already crowded by Rik+Sweeney · 2003-02-12 05:00 · Score: 5, Informative

What would be even better is if they fix the problems with the Central Line. It's not going to be up and running in any state until the end of March.

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The centre will be clearer. The outskirts won't be by Rik+Sweeney · 2003-02-12 05:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Since people won't be able to drive around the centre of London much less park there they will go and park immediately outside the Congestion Zone which will cause havoc. Fortunately some car parks have already taken note of this and are charging a daily rate of £4.60

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