https://minimal.org.uk/categories/itll-never-work/ Recent content in it'll never work on minimal.org.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb ian Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:41:21 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/01/13/solving-cambridge-congestion-and-increasing-inner-city-trade/ Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:41:21 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/01/13/solving-cambridge-congestion-and-increasing-inner-city-trade/ Cambridge has a traffic problem. It’s not the worst in the country I’m sure, but it’s problematic enough that various expensive and almost certainly fatally flawed schemes have been proposed, and some even mostly built as a result. Whilst something as drastic as a one-way inner ring road would certainly be bold, it’d also be expensive and the outcome might not be quite what was expected. One thing that hasn’t been done is try a very simple and fairly cheap experiment, which changes just one aspect of charging for parking: charge less the longer you stay.