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You (in your usual rude manner) quote a non independent source from 8 years ago.
Here's one from January that quite literally states that London is the most congested city on earth, according to a traffic analysis company (who clearly, like everyone else on earth, know less about this than you)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64219939
https://inrix.com/scorecard/
There are different ways to measure congestion, but quite clearly it is up for debate as to whether the London congestion charge has worked, despite what you happen to think. You aren't always right!
You spout a lot of one-eyed lazy, uninformed bollocks. That's fact and not rude. I have nothing against you personally. How could I? Correct me if I'm wrong, we have never met.
You don't like it when people robustly disagree with you which is an odd characteristic for someone on an online debate forum.
Your second paragraph there is genuinely the most ironic thing I have ever heard on this forum!
Note that when you posted an eight year old study, I responded with one from 2022. You haven't addressed that, you've just said I spout one-eyed lazy uninformed bollocks.
But expertise in this area have reported London as the most congested city of 1000 studied globally. Here, I will post them again for you. Inrix are a global traffic data company, their report is mere months old.
https://inrix.com/scorecard/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64219939
Quite obviously the success or otherwise of the congestion charge is up for debate.
I'll waste some of my time on this. Try to keep up.
Do you know what a counterfactual is? What do you think would have happened to measures of congestion in London absent the congestion charge? What counterfactual time series that would look like? That's the baseline a modeler would use to examine the efficacy of the congestion charge.
There is no reputable study that demonstrates the congestion charge did not reduce any measures of congestion posited in the counterfactual. None.
What you quoted in the BBC article was a private sector organization's puff piece about the level of congestion in major cities. It isn't serious research. It contains no analysis attempting to explain the variations in levels of congestion.
Many people are confused by the Trump verdict, yet you are certain that the case is beyond question. I was was just pointing out some of the inconsistencies, and it's probably going to be appealed, so I will keep an open mind on the matter. Similarly with the Biden clan too. It's time for a big clean-up in politics and the media, and to bring an end to all this divide and conquer tribalism.
Just trying to cut a bit of slack to the working class motorist. I think more roads should be built and petrol down to fifty pence per litre. In turn the economy will boom and prices will generally come down. As a replacement tax what about taxing people on the amount they flush the toilet, if the counting the dumps becomes unworkable?
Of course I know what counterfactual is. But you can't hide behind that. We don't know what would have happened to congestion (which can be measured in different ways) had the charge not been applied. Have you looked at traffic patterns in cities and city centres of places that didn't implement a congestion charge?
Here's just one: Newcastle, which shows falls in car use over the same time
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/local-authorities/172.
Moreover, you simply dismiss a report on a study of 1000 cities because it doesn't suit your confirmation bias.
On this, you are wrong. It absolutely is up for debate how successful the London congestion charge is.
I know you think you know everything, but I'm afraid you don't.
Some good stats there.
Here is inner city Wandsworth
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/local-authorities/108
And here is Cardiff over the same period.
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/local-authorities/19
Hypothetical discussions are all well and good, but the real outcomes will only be known after all the cars are gone. Once all forms of transport are government controlled, everybody will be at their mercy regarding free movement in your own country. We already had a taster during the pandemic with the enforcement of essential travel restrictions, quarantine regulations, and 5 mile travel limits.
I don't want to get into everything they got wrong with the pandemic, but I wouldn't worry too much at your age, and if you don't have any kids you have even less less to worry about. As an aside, some schools in Wales have been rehearsing lockdowns for climate emergency and civil unrest this week.