On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:37:40 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

One proposal from the Mayor of London is within the boundaries of the
North and South circular roads. And an awful lot of people live within
those.

So? All that area has very good public transport. The vast majority
of people in that area have no real need to own a car. Taxi for the
weekly shop (or shock horror just walk more often) for groceries,
hire for the occasional longer journey. With a car costing around
40p/mile to run (fuel, insurance, maintenace, depreciation, etc) the
£2000 that 5,000 miles/year costs buys quite a few taxi trips and
hires...

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Cheers
Dave.