Prior to congestion charging 40,000 vehicles an hour drove every morning into central London, equivalent to 25 busy motorway lanes.
		With all this traffic, drivers in central London spend 50 percent of their time in queues.
		Traffic speeds in central London dipped below 10 mph in the period 1998–2000 for the first time since records began. there are now no longer any 'peaks'.
		Drivers spend as much as half their time in jams, costing the capital's economy £2 to £4 million a week.
		136,000 residents live within the charging zone, about half in car-owning households.
		Each weekday, 6,000 buses accommodate 4.5 million passenger journeys on 600 routes around London; bus passenger travel increased by 6 per cent in 2000/01 to 4.7 billion passenger kilometres.
		If the congestion charge works it is estimated there will be a 10 to 15 percent cut in traffic, enough to cut journey times by 20 to 30 percent.