Congestion pricing charges vehicles traveling into or within the central business districts of cities. The fee is intended to lower traffic congestion and pollution. But does it work? Today we’ll look at both London and New York City to find out. This series will be following the East Coast Mainline (ECML). The ECML is a high speed rail line in the United Kingdom, similar to the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the United States. The rail line carries the London Northeastern Railway (LNER), Thameslink, Grand Central, Lumo, and Hull Trains. With the full prospects of High Speed 2 (HS2) uncertain, can the ECML be upgraded to cover for it? Subscribe to find out.
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Awesome video!
(Ok, now please do a comparison between the ECML and the NEC! Pretty please!)
I was in London a few months ago and the congestion pricing zone is pretty visibly a massive success. There was an obviously lower number of cars and level of congestion within the zone compared to outside of it. I didn't know where the zone boundaries were before I went there, but I was able to guess that I was at a boundary at several locations based on the level of car traffic on either side.
So I've just taken the ECML this week and heading back down south to London tomorrow before connecting back to the South West Main Line (SWML).
On the way up to York, we took a DEMU from Grand Central. Was to nice to be ok a train faster than 100mph (thanks to the SWML being 3rd rail, but thats another discussion), it was … Loud. Pretty sure that the LNER train taking us back is an EMU, so hopefully will have the best of speed and quiet!
Can also confirm that Grand Central ran straight from KX to York non-stop, but the LNER train will call at stops you mentioned
The trains that ran on these lines now run on the Overland between Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.
(de)congestion pricing is paying for the harm and inconvenience cars brings to others
Removing cars from the streets doesn't cause an impact on people's lives, it helps to decreased heavy traffic, accidents, parking, and air pollution. We need congestion pricing now.
Yeah IBX is a joke done by Kooky Kathy because she doesn’t know what good transit actually means New York needs some sort of LRT but that should be In ether Long Island or Albany. Don’t get me started on Buffalo that’s just asking for a sad violin
5:10 Apparently, the reason why the IBX might need to have a streetrunning section, causing LRT to be considered, is due to a 1" pipeline carrying fuel to LGA that is occupying one of the existing tunnels under the cemetery. However, Even if this pipeline somehow impractical to be adjusted or outright moved in order to reenable rail transit, a straightforward cut-and-cover tunnel could be constructed below the roadways around the cemetery. As for the decision of LRVs, the choice isn't inherently problematic as long as the MTA selects a High Floor LRV. Something similar to the Rolling Stock of the London Docklands Light Railway or the Siemens S200 used on the Muni Metro in San Francisco