User talk:Midlandstoday

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[edit] Workplace Parking Levy

Hi, you deleted my input about Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy to the article Road pricing‎. I thought I'd researched well and it seems to me that the Transport Act (2000) proposes two road pricing solutions for the UK: congestion charging (using the London model) and WPL. Why do you think WPL is not road pricing? Kind regards --Patek (talk) 00:48, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, road pricing applies to vehicles moving around and using the roads, rather than controlling or charging their parking arrangements. Parking controls as a means of reducing road traffic in an area are an old technique, and I believe they were in use (at least in the UK) before 'road pricing' was ever conceived of or discussed. Also, WPL does not fit with the rest of the article, which talks exclusively about projects and mechanisms for charging moving vehicles, to enter specific zones or to use certain roads, and without the use of conventional toll booths. Parking controls (including WPL), although a method of traffic control, are not road pricing. Midlandstoday (talk) 02:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)