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The Times and Independent
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Links? The Times is hardly unbiased and the Independent's transport coverage I know from experience is abject. So's their science coverage. Still, at least it wasn't the Standard.
What also isn't usually mentioned is that congestion increases with a booming economy, which has been the case (along with substantial inward migration) since the charge was introduced, so the measure is not against where it was before the charge (where it's still down) but against *where it would have been if the charge and the associated public transport improvements hadn't happened*.
Aslo, the number of road deaths sharply reduced after the charge was introduced:
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It is estimated that congestion charging directly leads to between 40 and 70 fewer personal injury road traffic accidents in the charging zone per year.
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Deaths and injuries are sharply down across London as a whole, actually, due to traffic calming, traffic reduction, modal shift, strong road safety campaigns in schools etc.