How congestion pricing has impacted London ahead of New York City plan

With Manhattan traffic potentially worse than ever and a second phase now targeting and fining recent model cars for their emissions, Eyewitness News went to London to see how their city fared with congestion pricing.

Moving forward is what the city of London promised it would do in 2003.

With great fanfare, it launched what it called its congestion charge, which uses a network of cameras and plate readers to toll every vehicle passing into the city center.

Their hope was to tackle the endless procession of traffic, one of London's most persistent problems.

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