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Clearing the Roads.(Brief Article)
The streets of London are rocking--or at least rolling--again. Last week the traffic-clogged metropolis began demanding a pound sterling5 ($8) congestion charge from all daytime motorists entering the busiest areas of the city. The result: a drop of nearly 25 percent in traffic.
The decongestant scheme employs some 700 cameras. Any driver who enters the zone--a patch of around eight square miles--between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. has until 10 p.m. that same day to pay the charge. (You can pay by telephone, over the Internet or in certain shops. Season passes are also available.) The cameras check the registration plate of every car against the payment records, and failure to ...
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