Congestion charges?

Question

does any one know any links apart from transport for london that give a lot of information on the congestion charges. Preferably in other contries. Its for a school report :( . thanks !

Answer 1

Try this link, it's not foreign, sorry.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_...

try this wikipedia site and you could get sanfransisco, newyor, stockhol, singapore and many others

Answer 3

Well Manchester has just announced a congestion charge, and Cambridge is considering congestion charges

Other countries eh? I wonder how many other countries actually HAVE congestion charges? The Americans tend to prefer having Car-pool lanes to get people to car share instead, but let's have a look.

Here's a UK business and product-based one to get started:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/act...

Heres Transport for London and you don't want that:

www.tfl.gov.uk/cclondon/ (but at least all the links are in one place).

Here's them arguing about congestion charges for New York:

http://www.observer.com/2008/congestion-...

Here's the same thing in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates :

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/522686-ab...

Here's India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/artic...

Here's Australia saying "No" to congestion charges:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?...

And here's a gentleman who knows a lot about it giving news that includes a proposal in California (but I'm afraid it's a bit boring).

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/...

There!