Comments on: What’s wrong with lane rental: it counts vehicles not people http://cycleoffutility.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-lane-rental-it-counts-vehicles-not-people/ In a world class cycling city... Tue, 14 May 2013 05:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Futilitarian http://cycleoffutility.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-lane-rental-it-counts-vehicles-not-people/#comment-331 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:38:43 +0000 http://cycleoffutility.wordpress.com/?p=1233#comment-331 Hard to tell what the gov are actually pushing for.

Philip Hammond has certainly announced it with some zeal, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see whether this is a Cones Hotline style attempt to shore up the Clarkson vote, or an actual policy.

]]> By: Joe Dunckley http://cycleoffutility.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-lane-rental-it-counts-vehicles-not-people/#comment-330 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:56:39 +0000 http://cycleoffutility.wordpress.com/?p=1233#comment-330 My understanding is that TfL have no choice but to influence national policy — in the amusingly appropriate jargon, the mayor doesn’t have the “competence” to introduce this without Westminster first passing legislation. That doesn’t mean it has to be rolled out nationally. Is the govt pushing for it to be rolled out nationally, or simply giving local authorities the option to have their own version?

When London proposed the Congestion Charge a similar piece of national legislation had to be passed to give TfL and local authorities the competence to introduce local road charging, and indeed, Durham has taken advantage of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_City_congestion_charge

Until this year, Wales was in the same position of having to ask Westminster for competence every time it wanted to innovate…

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