The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
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The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
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Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
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Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#3I’m probably being overly pedantic but it’s not a secret
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#4I’m probably being overly pedantic but it’s not a secret
It's not well known in America. Recent conversations on congestion surcharges in NYC regularly confused the charges in City of London (miniscule) with London as a whole (huge), and then tried to draw the comparison to the now-canceled charges in NYC, which would have affected more than half of Manhattan, and a large portion of the most significant commercial areas of NYC.
People are either being completely disingenuous, or they don't understand that City of London is a relatively insignificant portion of greater London. This fact alone illustrates how absurd the comparison actually is:
> As of the 2011 census, the City of London has a population of 8,072 and area of 1.12 square miles.
(For context, Manhattan has a population of 1.65 million people, with about 73,000 people per square mile. Even setting aside that lower Manhattan is more densely populated than upper, and that a lot of people commute in from the outer boroughs, the congestion pricing scheme would have affected at least 800k resident people, or about 10% of NYCs total population.)
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#5The FT did a recent - and very good - expose with more on how the city works in “Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives” [1] Paywalled but accessible via Google.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/2b96763f-5cb2-475b-b20c-7c2d02050...
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#6CGP Grey has a delightful video explaining this:
"The Secret City inside of London Revealed" (2012) https://youtu.be/LrObZ_HZZUc
Highly recommended.
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#7I’m probably being overly pedantic but it’s not a secret
It's not well known in America. Recent conversations on congestion surcharges in NYC regularly confused the charges in City of London (miniscule) with London as a whole (huge), and then tried to draw the comparison to the now-canceled charges in NYC, which would have affected more than half of Manhattan, and a large portion of the most significant commercial areas of NYC. People are either being completely disingenuo…
The London congestion charge is a much larger area than the City
https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/congestio...
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#8I used to live in the City of London at the top end of Chancery Lane. I could therefore be in a different city (City of Westminster) by crossing the street to the west and leave the city entirely by crossing to the north (London Borough of Camden).
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#9I’m probably being overly pedantic but it’s not a secret
It's not well known in America. Recent conversations on congestion surcharges in NYC regularly confused the charges in City of London (miniscule) with London as a whole (huge), and then tried to draw the comparison to the now-canceled charges in NYC, which would have affected more than half of Manhattan, and a large portion of the most significant commercial areas of NYC. People are either being completely disingenuo…
What are you talking about the London congestion charge is analogous to the NYC one, covering the core central business district.
Re: The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not well known in America. Recent conversations on congestion surcharges in NYC regularly confused the charges in City of London (miniscule) with London as a whole (huge), and then tried to draw the comparison to the now-canceled charges in NYC, which would have affected more than half of Manhattan, and a large portion of the most significant commercial areas of NYC. People are either being completely disingenuo…
The London congestion charge is a much larger area than the City https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/congestio...
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