Central Area tube line refurbishing complete. Off-street car parks open at 10 am. Some multi-storeyed car parks converted into flats. East-west tram line continued to Shepherd s Bush. Electronic road-pricing eliminates road cordon tolls.
Drivers pay for mileage driven within centre.
Certainly no road pricing would be acceptable to the public before an excellent public transport was in place. For an area as large as this to be entirely car-free seems unlikely. Better to concentrate on obvious key areas such as Oxford Street, Soho, Covent Garden or the City which should have been car-free years ago. This could have been done as part of an overall and long overdue policy to actually reduce traffic in the centre. There would be traffic repercussions over a wider area as occurred around the City when its ring of steel was introduced.