But would 95% of us not have to pay it?

Obama team study congestion charge

BARACK Obama's transport advisers are studying Greater Manchester's congestion-charge plans - to see if they could work in the US.

The President-elect's team have asked an American consultant who helped draw up the proposed charge to provide information about this scheme and similar systems around the world.
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A previous attempt to introduce a charge in New York in return for £225m of transport funding was thrown out by the state assembly. Mayor Michael Bloomberg later blasted assembly members as `cowards'.