C is for chaos

摘要

The bottleneck will start on day one. The congestion-charging scheme designed to solve London's traffic chaos is too low-tech to solve a highly complicated problem and will create a whole new chaos of its own. Experts believe the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has settled for inadequate technology whose glitches will take months to sort out, while extra staff will be needed to deal with anomalies, and whose flaws could lead to a flood of complaints. Though around 10 per cent of cars will miss detection by cameras, improving the system appears to have been ruled out for 10 years.