"Steve Firth" <%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
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> John Rowland journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> http://www.abd.org.uk/pr/634.htm
>>
>> I'm not sure who the Association of British Drivers are, so I'm not sure
>> how
>> much to read into this.
>
> It's hardly news. Anyone working in transport/telematics already knew
> that Livingstone had issued an edict that the lights across London were
> to be rephased to cause congestion prior to the introduction of the
> congestion charge. In fact I stated this was what was happening here at
> the time and had the usual cabal of fuckwits and some who should have
> known better screaming that it was a lie.
If the idea was to make congestion worse when they monitored congestion in
the run up to the introduction then reset the phasing after to make things
look better it didn't work well considering all the reports like this:
