[stuart bowes]

from what I've seen in London, i'd say the majority of people who work there and live elsewhere (i.e. commuters) are already well used to doing that by train anyway

And in terms of planning the future, is it not possible that we can move away from clustering together into big cities anyway?

most shopping is online now
a lot of work can be done from home
some companies will want to move out of cities anyway, because of ULEZ and so on

in days gone by there were sensible reasons for all the offices being so close together and shops being all in one place, but now? not really, it just feels like we're clinging to the old ways for no reason

if ULEZ and CC pushes people away from that then to be honest I'm not really seeing as much of a bad thing

yes it's money money money, but so are traffic cameras - if you want people to stop speeding, stop selling cars that go over say 80mph, you'd think it would be that simple wouldn't you. and yet you can hop on autotrader and buy an M3, then go 160mph down the M1 if you wanted to or were stupid enough