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The Birmingham Clean Air Zone is the area inside the A4540 Middleway ring road (yellow), not including the road itself.. The zone covers the urban area inside the A4540 Middleway ring road, excluding the road itself, but including the Jewellery Quarter, the Chinese Quarter, the main shopping district, the area around Birmingham New Street railway station, and the rest of Birmingham city centre.
Greater London has a Low Emission Zone and an Ultra Low Emission Zone, covering the majority of the city In central London there is a Congestion Charge, a different type of charge for motor vehicles; Oxford has a Zero Emission Zone in the city centre; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee each have a Low Emission Zone in their centres
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.
Pages in category "Road congestion charge schemes in the United Kingdom" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[33] [34] [35] The Ecopass program was extended until December 31, 2011, [36] [37] and on January 16, 2012, was replaced by Area C, a trial program that converted the scheme from a pollution-charge to a congestion charge. [38] The Gothenburg congestion tax was implemented in January 2013 and it was modeled after the Stockholm scheme. [39]
The B postcode area, also known as the Birmingham postcode area, [2] is a group of 79 postcode districts in central England, within 15 post towns. These cover the central portion of the West Midlands (including Birmingham, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Smethwick, Solihull, Halesowen, Cradley Heath, Oldbury and Rowley Regis), plus northeast Worcestershire (including Bromsgrove and Redditch ...
The Middleway, officially designated as the A4540 and signposted as ring road, is an orbital road in Birmingham, England.Serving as the sole ring road of the city, it runs around Birmingham city centre at a distance of approximately 1 mile (1.6 km).
Proposals for a new publicly funded motorway were circulated in 1980. [2] It was originally to be called the A446(M) [citation needed] Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR) and designed to alleviate the increasing congestion on the M6 through Birmingham and the Black Country in England, as well as improving road links to neighbouring parts of Staffordshire and North Warwickshire.