The charge is due to be introduced on the 19th of February next year. Other changes in plan are that the congestion charge will be active for one hour less, thus ending at 6 in the evening.

Even though the charge is seven months away the Congestion Digest managed to grab Transport for London’s spokesperson for the congestion charge, Jamie O’Hara, for the low-down on the extension.

Jamie speaks about where exactly the extension will be affecting:

Was the extension initially planned from the conception of the charge?

There will be long term effects of the charge, some of which we have already seen with the central zone of London, hear Jamie O’Hara talk about what we should see in the future:

As for controversy there will always be problems with the congestion charge, but what does Jamie think of the complaints?

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