London Congestion Charge Zone
Enter
central London with out paying your £8 and you may face fines in excess
of £150.
Transportation authorities in London have installed a network of over 200 cameras that record vehicle registration numbers when entering central London. Signage is posted at entrances to the zone, but there are no tollbooths or barriers and no physical tickets or passes. The registration numbers of vehicles entering the zone are compared with those of paid or exempt vehicles in a computer database. Travelers who don't pay before or during your day of travel into the zone will be penalized. Payment are made online, at certain retail stores, by mail, telephone, or even by SMS text message from cell phones.
Click on the binoculars to see a demonstration of Fugawi displaying the London Congestion Charge Zone. london_fugawi.GIF (Approx. 140 KB) opens in a new window.
GPS Map
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Download the free GPS Map in GPS eXchange (.gpx) file format, which can be read and transferred to your GPS using free EasyGPS software. (The .gpx file will appear in a new window where you can File > Save as... on your computer).
GPS Map Details
File Name: london.gpx (12 KB)
Revised: 7 August 2004
Class B Data
Waypoints: 38 Points of Interest, mostly inside the London Congestion Charge
Zone.
Routes: One route roughly defining the perimeter around the London Congestion
Charge Zone.
References
Map of the Charge zone was created, best as possible, from information found at the official Transport for London web site.
GPS waypoints for points of interest around london were adaped from Paul Edwards collection, linked from his Paul Edwards GPS Page
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