Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Managing traffic
- Central London congestion charge
- Advantages
- Raises cash which can be spent on
improving current public transport
- 38% less chargeable traffic
within the first week
- More appealing to tourists
- People more likely to
spend time there
- Less cars so less risk
- Less carbon dioxide
emissions
- Disadvantages
- Worse traffic in all
perimeter roads
- More 2 wheeled traffic
- Shopkeepers within the
zone reporting less business
- Fewer people in the zone
than expected
- Less revenue than anticipated
- Large numbers of
inexperienced drivers
- What
- £8 every day per vehicle
driven in the zone
- Registration checked
across a database
- 7am-6:30pm
- 2003
- Avoidance
- Walk
- Public transport
- Avoid zone or times
- Use two wheeled transport
- Park and Ride, York
- Advantages
- Parking is free and secure
- Makes the city more appealing
- Less congestion
- Less carbon dioxide
emissions
- Disadvantages
- Building car parks takes up land
- Habitat loss
- May increase
urban sprawl
- May end up a waste of money
- Can't guarantee people
will use it
- Needs to be accessible
- What
- 5 sites in York
- Frequent buses