Every day, millions of cars choke us to death in city centres the world over. Ironically, while many people neither own nor drive one, the car has proved so seductive that it has turned into one of the most environmentally destructive forces of our time. One man who thinks we can’t carry on like this is Phil Goodwin of University College London, a leading expert on traffic congestion. He wants Britain to be the envy of the Western world-by charging motorists to drive in city centres. And London should soon become the largest Western city to experiment with the…
Whose roads are they anyway?
By Mick Hamer
9 June 2001
