Congestion Charge goes to £25 in October

RPM
And with stops being so close together it encourages the lazy to never walk more than ten yards.

That pisses me off to. When I was living in South Eailing there was a "express bus" that went from Acton to S.B, it was really good it stopped alot less.

I have not seen this any where else. Nr where I live now there is a big housing area which could really do with express buses to tube / train staions as there is no train / tube near by. There are alot of dual carrage ways though.

hippy I own a car. I can drive. But, driving 600k to see my parents is one thing. Driving to the shops because you're too lazy to walk is another. Driving to work when there's an adequate public transport system is again another.

I am with you on that one it is the inapropeat use.

hippy
It saddens me that 90% of the cars I'm passing on the way into work are occupied by a single person.

Yep two people, idealy 3 or more and a car is not that bad, it is the fact that most are ofcourse a massive box with one person in along line of traffic of other boxs with one person. One of the reasons I pick up hitch hikers when driving on my own. Even though most of them can be very trying.

hippy
Don't mind a road trip now and then. Understand cars have a use moving house, etc. But seriously, most of these people don't NEED to use their cars in London. It's this laziness and the unnecessary car journeys we want to get rid of. Will upping the C charge help? The first round appears to have been effective. Up it I say. £100/day minimum. £500 if you drive a 4x4. :)

There is a problem with the the way things are set up at the moment that (in genral not to do with c charge) that if you have a car which you use occatinally but still need it for odd occational uses, there is no real incentive NOT to use it. Some one pays the say car tax weather they have a car for a bi monethly journey or a drive 500 miles a week. This is why I am so for road pricing as it does not stop people from having a car for the ligitamet uses but encourage poeple only use it for those uses and not hte lazy one mile trips.