It is time to strike back over disruptive utilities

Ben Walker, deputy editor. Email: regeneration@haymarket.com, Regeneration & Renewal, 15 August 2008

A blunt instrument. That's how London mayor Boris Johnson described the congestion charge. But like anyone who has spent their Boxing Day deducing that the willowy Miss Scarlet bumped off the burly Dr Black with the lead piping, Boris ought to conclude that blunt instruments can sometimes be effective.

Mayoral agency Transport for London last week released data revealing that 21 per cent fewer vehicles enter central London each working day than before the congestion charge was introduced in...

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