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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by Nursie on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:28AM (#15330248)
>> I think it's mainly to reduce the polution in central London.

I lived in London when it was launched, it was also to do with making the city centre flow again, so that those who actually needed to be there could travel in a reasonable amount of time.

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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by konschubert on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:09AM (#15330593)
You mean, the ones who have money to pay the congestion charge. :)
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by _h_o_d_ on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:13AM (#15330639)
Correct. Until we have a better economic system, this is how authorities often make incentives.
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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by Nursie on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:12AM (#15330632)
Well yeah, but as with all things in life, taxes and capitalism - money and motivation get used interchangeably because government has no imagination!
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