Comments on: London's Congestion Charge Should Have Encouraged Smaller Vehicles http://sashaonthestreet.com/2008/08/21/londons-congestion-charge-should-have-encouraged-smaller-vehicles/ A civil engineer's perspective on transportation and sustainable infrastructure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sasha http://sashaonthestreet.com/2008/08/21/londons-congestion-charge-should-have-encouraged-smaller-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Sasha Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:58:00 +0000 http://www.sashaonthestreet.com/?p=38#comment-8 Avoid the Congestion Charge: Drive an Eco-Car http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/congestion-charge-green-cars.php Avoid the Congestion Charge: Drive an Eco-Car
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]]> By: Adron http://sashaonthestreet.com/2008/08/21/londons-congestion-charge-should-have-encouraged-smaller-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Adron Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:26:16 +0000 http://www.sashaonthestreet.com/?p=38#comment-7 I still don't get why a single, monopolized entity, that has no response to the masses or market forces, is ok'd to charge such a fee based on an arbitrary basis. If the roads were "bid out" or "leased out" to a maintainer (i.e. privatized in a sense), with a promised state of maintenance, and let them charge - you'd have exactly what the aim is (charges on bigger vehicles would DEFINITELY be charged more because it costs more to maintain the road for them - well over 10x as much for tractor trailers vs. single small cars)... ...but instead the politicians act like they're going to save the world and do things like the fee. Completely unattached to a correlated logic, instead just arbitrarily levied. Very odd, very strange, and I'm sure in many ways not very honorable. I still don’t get why a single, monopolized entity, that has no response to the masses or market forces, is ok’d to charge such a fee based on an arbitrary basis.

If the roads were “bid out” or “leased out” to a maintainer (i.e. privatized in a sense), with a promised state of maintenance, and let them charge – you’d have exactly what the aim is (charges on bigger vehicles would DEFINITELY be charged more because it costs more to maintain the road for them – well over 10x as much for tractor trailers vs. single small cars)…

…but instead the politicians act like they’re going to save the world and do things like the fee. Completely unattached to a correlated logic, instead just arbitrarily levied.

Very odd, very strange, and I’m sure in many ways not very honorable.

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