one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog
February 26 2008
FOE vs Porsche: Fight!
August 22 2007
the system works“There is simply no other measure as effective in quickly reducing traffic as congestion charging.”
April 22 2007
Five innovations in urban transportation that you won’t find in America, yet (or Belgium, for the most part).
March 07 2007
Support for Stockholm’s congestion charge is greater than ever.
December 24 2006
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.
September 19 2006
Stockholm voters OK congestion charging for vehicles entering the city.
August 10 2006
We won't pay for driving so we queue“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.”
August 05 2006
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…