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Originally Posted by Kursk
If the compulsory option was public transport or walk (or cycle), they would soon get used to using public transport. Besides, gridlock will remove the option soon, there's no point delaying the inevitable at such exorbitant cost.
Qualifying road users such as the emergency services, police, some disabled could be allowed into the City Centre.
Think how much better the environment would be.
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It's something I'd like to see, but I doubt it's a viable option without someone spending a *lot* more upgrading the public transport networks to cope with the extra demand. These upgrades would also like take many decades. To give an idea of the time scale. I live near a relatively small, but busy national rail train line. One which has been earmarked by National Rail, TFL and the Mayor as being a line they want converted to the underground to reduce the strain on Lewisham station (which is a massive choke point for the South Eastern rail network). Even though the project to convert this line to an extension of the Bakerloo line has the support of all those authorities, we've been told it's unlikely to be completed before 2040.
This is apparently considered to be a cheap way to increase capacity, only costing £3bn.