There is an inconsistency between the message (take the car ...) and the action (increase the congestion charge .........)
But we need to differentiate the short term from longer term impacts.
Longer term work from home and online shopping, will almost certainly be impacted.
Entertainment, hotels, tourism, restaurants and bars are likely to be amongst the last venues to open. The landscape may look very different to historic normality.
Cities have also seen major environmental benefits from reduced vehicle traffic.
So the proposition that a strategic end game is the removal of ICE from the centre of cities seems plausible. Clearly many issues remain before this becomes a reality - commercial traffic, emergency vehicles, timing etc. Current barriers are not a good reason to reject the strategy - just a recognition that more work is needed.
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