Mirror sings praises of London’s ‘greener’ transport system

The Daily Mirror thinks that London’s transport system is becoming ‘greener’ by the day, as the paper marked the tenth anniversary of the capital introducing its ground-breaking congestion charging scheme

Rik Thomas

22 February 2013

The MIrror waxed lyrical about the New Bus for London but at least one of its readers was rather more sceptical

ON 18 FEBRUARY, which was the tenth anniversary of the introduction of congestion charging in London, The Daily Mirror asked the rhetorical question: “Are commuters getting greener?”

“Since the charge for driving in central London was introduced bikes, buses, electric cars and car sharing have taken off,” the paper claimed. “Ken Livingstone’s big idea [was] to make the capital a cleaner, less congested place. But the way in which our capital’s commuters...