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The Environmental Transport Association notes that Boris Johnson, having already scrapped the western extension to London’s congestion charging zone, has not ruled out eliminating it entirely, apparently to provide a boost to London’s plummeting economy (which apparently depends on private car journeys whisking in to do Christmas shopping at Marks and Spencer). During “Question Time” he said he wanted to “brood” on it a bit, but did not want to do anything that make congestion worse. Well, if as every journo and taxi driver in London likes to argue, congestion is as bad now as it was before the charge — generally forgetting to mention the massive infrastructure program that has shut a once impossible number of streets, not to mention the idea of how much worse congestion would be without the charge — it’s hard to see how scuttling the charge could in any way make congestion better.

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