one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

FOE vs Porsche: Fight!

There is simply no other measure as effective in quickly reducing traffic as congestion charging.

the system works

Five innovations in urban transportation that you won’t find in America, yet (or Belgium, for the most part).

Support for Stockholm’s congestion charge is greater than ever.

TNT will be using electric trucks for deliveries within London. Electric vehicles are exempt from the congestion charge, which goes to show it can do more than just reduce traffic, it can influence practices.

Stockholm voters OK congestion charging for vehicles entering the city.

By hiding the cost of congestion - by paying it in time rather than money - we understate the cost of our preference for living in low-density patterns and we end up overinvesting in highways.

We won't pay for driving so we queue

The Stockholm congestion charge experiment was a success, but that doesn’t guarantee it will be upheld. I wonder if we’d even get that far in Brussels…