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We will all pay price
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It's one of the biggest experiments in Britain and, at 7am Monday morning, it looked as if London's congestion charge might just have worked.
Or at least that's what London Mayor Ken Livingstone thought. The roads were quiet—but then again, they usually are during the half-term holiday. The real test for the system will come next week after the schools go back—and after commuters who opted for the train while things settled revert to their cars. Then we'll see the full truth.
But what can't be ignored is the news from Transport for London that moot) drivers failed to pay their L5 charge on time—and for those drivers, the failure to pay is an expensive business at go a time. But failures in the system in the runup to the charge must leave drivers and operators wondering whether they've been identified as one of the io,000 by default. Several large fleets learnt their applications had not been processed just days before the system went live.
Of course, there is one way round this—and CM believes it's a sensible option; that's to make commercial vehicles exempt from the charge altogether.
The message is simple: we ALL pay the price for charging goods vehicles.