The main aim of congestion charging is to reduce traffic in central London thus reducing congestion. Predictions suggest traffic in the charging zone will be reduced by around 15%, reducing queues by up to 25%. Currently over 130,000 vehicles travel into the planned congestion charging zone per day. This would be cut by 20,000 people transferring from their cars to public transport - 5,000 to the tube and rail and 15,000 to buses. All of these people will be accommodated with the planned introduction of 200 new buses and improvements to existing routes. …
