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...costing the European Union €40 billion a year - that some cities are getting serious about fighting back. This week, London careers into Europe's most radical traffic-control experiment of the past half-century. Every vehicle that enters the city center must render unto the modern Caesar - Mayor Ken Livingstone and his Greater London Authority - a €8 charge. Seven hundred cameras are recording all license plates, and those who don't pay are fined at least €60. You would think, judging by the public uproar, that drivers were being asked to hand over their bone marrow...
...demand. The M25 motorway around London, the classic example, was built to allow for 30 years of traffic growth. It was jammed within six months. Traffic is like water: it oozes across all available surface. Damming the flow requires a brave - or suicidal - politician. For better or worse, "Red Ken" Livingstone fits that description. A born Londoner with a common touch and a feisty history, he alone could dare prescribe such rough medicine and have a hope his citizens would swallow it. And so here we are: starting on Monday at 7 a.m., the first car that crossed...
...stark," says Bourn, of Transport 2000. This week, as the mayor of London hovers over his sword, his counterparts around the world will be watching. As for the good citizens of London, everyone seems to have his or her own plan. Joanne Cohen, co-founder of the Sod-U-Ken site, finds her neighborhood newly divided. She lives just outside the zone and will now reconsider routine trips to the grocery store or friends' houses. Tory M.P. Michael Fabricant predicts administrative chaos and has vowed to go to jail rather than pay the fine if he ever gets unfairly penalized...
Regarded by many as the greatest collegiate goaltender of all-time, Ken Dryden is still revered at Cornell for taking the Big Red to three consecutive Final Fours (1967-1969), winning the ’67 title and going on to win six Stanley Cups in the NHL—feats that earned him a place in the Hockey Hall of Fame...
...Ken Dryden is there for a reason,” LeNeveu said. “His records were so great because he was a champion. I hope to become a champion before I break any records...