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Livingstone Responds to Transport Charges

LONDON-Mayor Ken Livingstone has responded to growing concern that transport chaos is threatening London's economic development. He insisted a lot was already being done to address the problem.<

By Graham Parker | Updated on June 18, 2001

LONDON-Mayor Ken Livingstone has responded to growing concern that transport chaos is threatening London’s economic development. He insisted a lot was already being done to address the problem.

Speaking at the launch of the Central London Partnership’s ‘Integrated Transport and Environment Strategy for Central London’, Livingstone said: ‘Central London is the single most economically productive part of Europe. It’s economy is essential to the whole of London as well as to the rest of the country. However, we have a city that is intolerably congested. To tackle this immediately we are putting in place a huge system of reforms to both the bus service and the taxi trade, as well as proposing a congestion charge for a small area of central London.’

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