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The Durham City congestion charge was the first congestion charge to be introduced in the UK in October 2002. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Durham County Council introduced the toll for drivers using 1,000-year-old Saddler Street in the city centre which stands on the peninsula above the River Wear. [ 3 ]
In the 1960s the Smeed Report considered how to implement congestion charging. [1] In September 2002, the Durham congestion charge, England's first congestion charging scheme was introduced. It was restricted to a single road in that city, with a £2 charge. [2] [3] In 2003 the London congestion charge was introduced.
In recent times, the concept of charging tolls to finance the building of roads has been revived, but so far the only new toll road is M6 Toll. Tolls for the Forth Road Bridge were removed in 2008 following a divisive three-year political debate during which it was proposed that variable congestion pricing tolls would be introduced. [7]
Map of County Durham, UK with City of Durham highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%: Date: 21 January 2025: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Most data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
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The area within the bend of the river, that is, the historic Durham Castle and Cathedral, Palace Green, North Bailey, South Bailey, Saddler Street, Durham Market Place and other surrounding streets is known as "The Peninsula", and forms one of the character areas of the Durham City Conservation Area. [4]
A traffic congestion map is a graphical, realtime or near-realtime representation of traffic flow for some particular area. [1] Data is typically collected via anonymous GPS datapoints and loop sensors embedded in the roadways, then processed by computer at a central facility and distributed as a map view to users.
The $15 for cars will be in addition to the $17.63 drivers pay at the Lincoln and Holland tunnels starting in 2024 according to a draft of the report.