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P CONGESTION CHARGING
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No congestion charge for Norwich
NORWICH HAS ABANDONED its plans to introduce a congestion charge after a study revealed it wouldn't raise enough money to fund other transport schemes.
But the £500,000 report has strengthened the case for a Norwich Northern Distributor Road (NDR), which would cut city-centre travel time by 16%.
The county and city councils used money from the government's transport innovation fund to investigate the potential of a congestion charge in the East Anglian city. A feasibility study found that charging vehicles to go inside Norwich's inner ring road would only produce a "modest" surplus, insufficient for major investment in other transport projects.
A recommendation from local authorities will be made in May for no further work to be carried out. It states: "We do not feel we could put together a sufficiently attractive package capable of securing sufficient public support for successful implementation. It is unlikely we could prepare a satisfactory bid to government for substantive funding."
Adrian Gunson, cabinet member for planning and transportation, says: "The council always envisaged an acceptable road-pricing scheme would have to provide funds for significantly improved public transport and to accelerate projects such as the Northern Distributor Road. Pricing people off the city-centre streets without offermg alternatives is not what we are trying to do."
Gunson adds: "The NOR would cut city-centre travel times by 16% and distance travelled by 13%, as well as being the only proposal that would taking rat-running traffic out of Thorpe St Andrew, Sprowston, Carton, Hellesdon and other residential areas."