Replacement of fuel duty with a congestion charge is among a number of measures suggested in a tax blueprint by a leading think tank.

President Barack Obama is confronted by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, over America's failure to pay the congestion charge.

... not Jenny Jones of the Green Party. Gawd bless those Greens; I do like them - personally that is. Many of the Greens I know are fine people. However today's announcement by their London Mayoral hopeful Jenny Jones does make you wonder for their collective political sanity. Ms Jones wants to raise the congestion charge to £50 per day and extend it out to the M25. No, you didn't ...

Millions of Londoners are set to pay higher fares thanks to Boris Johnson's decision to remove the congestion charge western extension. Ken Livingstone said: "Londoners from Charlton to Chalk Farm will pay for the Chelsea congestion charge axe. "What's lost in income in December will be raised through fares in January. "Abolishing one half of the congestion charge zone is a political cho...

London needs a broader congestion charge scheme, covering many more of the capital's roads and levying varying tariffs on motorists, according to an influential report

Transport for London is running a consultation on Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s plans to axe the western extension to the congestion charge zone, increase the daily charge, change the exemptions and introduce a discount for automated payments. At heart this is the sort of consultation which gives the word a bad name: the big political

It’s Wednesday 17th February and for me, like so many other Lib Dem activists, another day of delivering leaflets and knocking on doors (plus a Council meeting in the evening). On this day in 1933 prohibition ended in the United States, and in 2003 London got a new congestion charge. There, wasn’t that

Oh dear.  Boris has just had to announce a bunch of inflation-busting fare increases for public transport in London.  From January, the congestion charge will be up by 25 percent, Oyster card fares will have 20p added to them, 7-day bus passes will cost just under £3 more – and so on, and so on.  To be fair, we shouldn't be too surprised at these kinds of hikes. ...

Boris Johnson is threatening to kill some children and worsen the educational outcomes of many more. The reason for this is straightforward. He intends to remove the western extension zone of the congestion charge, and delay phase three of the low emission zone, which would charge polluting vans more for entering London.

On Wednesday I had to give in and pay to drive in central London after 7 am. I had to deliver a heavy package to one place, drop off a print for framing at another, and fit in a haircut at another. I could not do all