{"id":54,"date":"2011-02-22T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogs.splintdev.geog.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-02-11T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:52:00","slug":"18th-century-congestion-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/18th-century-congestion-charging\/","title":{"rendered":"18th Century Congestion Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paying to use London&#8217;s roads is not a new idea. I have just come across a map showing turnpike gates (tolls) which were like the 18th Century equivalent of congestion charging. Instead of a single zone there appear to have been 16, each demanding a fee. It is unclear whether cyclists(!) and taxis were exempt from paying, or whether the tolls had any effect on reducing congestion! An interactive version can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/luna\/servlet\/detail\/RUMSEY~8~1~200792~3000441:General-Plan-for-Explaining-the-dif?sort=Pub_Date,Pub_List_No_InitialSort&amp;cic=RUMSEY~8~1&amp;widgetType=detail&amp;nsip=1#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I have also included a map of the current zone for comparison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1600\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/27240021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1600\" src=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/27240021-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy David Rumsey Maps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-05-at-19.55.55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1594\" src=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-05-at-19.55.55-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy TFL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/800px-London_congestion_charge_zone.png\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/spatialanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Screen-shot-2010-12-05-at-19.55.55.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying to use London&#8217;s roads is not a new idea. I have just come across a map showing turnpike gates (tolls) which were like the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[858,859,862,860,48,865,861,863,864,150,841],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic","tag-858","tag-c18","tag-cary","tag-congestion","tag-congestion-charge","tag-restriction","tag-rumsey","tag-toll","tag-traffic","tag-turnpike","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}