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Shortly after dawn on February 17th 2003, the world’s most ambitious road-pricing experiment will start in London. Though cordon toll schemes have been operating in Nor-way for years, and Singapore has an electronic system, no one has ever tried to charge motorists in a city of the size and complexity of London.
For decades, transport planners have been demanding that motorists should pay directly for the use of roads. According to the professionals, it is the only way of civilizing cities and restraining the growth of inter-urban traffic. Politicians have mostly turned a deaf ear, fearing that charging for something what was previously free was a quick route to electoral suicide. But London’s initiative suggests that the point where road pricing he-comes generally accepted as the most efficient way to restrain traffic is much nearer than most drivers realize.
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has pinned his political reputati
A. his interest in traffic.
B. the weak response of politicians.
C. his political motives.
D. the complexity of the problem.
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