You wouldn’t by any chance be exagerating a little? Not really sure that the people of Croydon, Bromley or Bexley, for example, will be greatly affected by this. I believe Ken’s original consultation was limited to what was also defined as the affected areas, although the only meaningful consultation is the election which all eligible Londoners were free to take part in -the result of which awarded Boris the power to take the decision.

Power to the people?

The western end of the WEZ will of course have a greater CO2 gas problem. It is the fact that cars are driving around trying to avoid going in it!!

Rejoice London! Johnson has actually done something he said he would. Shame its not to the benefit of all Londoners. Still, there is always a next time.

Troll with hugely unintended irony there, given the effect of tens of thousands of extra vehicles on London’s roads. Cough.

West London looks mostly OK on the spiffing new TfL trafficalerts microsite (http://trafficalerts.tfl.gov.uk/microsite/), except Notting Hill, Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush, which are suffering badly. Notting Hill is the only one in the WEZ, and that has temporary traffic lights at the moment.

Absolute cock.

I ride a pushbike through West London daily, and have done for years. Before the extension Holland Park Avenue was pretty much consistantly a car park from top to bottom (going down the hill) sometimes backing up into Notting Hill. These days with the charge there’s sometimes a few cars at the bottom.

Perversely West London was tonight (on the eve of the announcement) congested to a level I’ve not seen since before the charge, I seriously suspect a lot of people saw the Standard’s leader board and thought it was finished today.