Oct 1, 2007 3:11 pm US/Eastern
Bloomberg Talks Congestion Pricing In London
Meets With Mayor Ken Livingstone
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Mayor Bloomberg is in London Monday, discussing congestion pricing with Mayor Livingstone.
AP
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was meeting his London counterpart Monday to discuss ways of cleaning up the environment in their congestion-clogged cities.
Bloomberg, a small-c conservative, and fiery left-winger Ken Livingstone were holding talks on London's congestion charge, the eight pound ($16) toll on entering the city center by car introduced by Livingstone after he was elected in 2000. Bloomberg favors a similar plan for New York.
The New York mayor also was taking a ride on a hybrid double-decker bus -- another of Livingstone's green initiatives -- and seeing a demonstration of the "ring of steel," the network of video cameras and road defenses set up during the years of Irish Republican Army bombings to protect London's central business district.
On Sunday, Bloomberg addressed the annual conference of the opposition Conservative Party, praising Tory leader David Cameron's green credentials.
Bloomberg also warned that both the United States and Britain needed to "get our houses in order" fiscally after the credit crisis that has spread from the U.S. sub-prime housing sector to British mortgage lender Northern Rock.
Bloomberg, who has denied having plans to seek the U.S. presidency, advised Cameron to stick to his party's tradition of strict management of the nation's finances.
"Fiscal conservatives have hearts too -- but we also insist on using our brains, and that means demanding results and holding government accountable for producing them," he said.
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