I noticed it a long while ago, back when the congestion charge was introduced.
I was off sick that day, and saw the BBC news coverage of the introduction of the charge for most of the day. Pretty much every update was 'well, there is no chaos, YET. But it is still early, there may be CHAOS AND CONFUSION LATER. We will have to WAIT AND SEE if there is going to be an CHAOS later'.
When no CHAOS occurred, and the congestion charge's introduction was comparatively straightforward (and actually seemed to have the desired effect in that it reduced the number of people driving into London) they just dropped it and pretended they'd always known it would work.
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Date: 2009-07-09 11:26 am (UTC)I was off sick that day, and saw the BBC news coverage of the introduction of the charge for most of the day. Pretty much every update was 'well, there is no chaos, YET. But it is still early, there may be CHAOS AND CONFUSION LATER. We will have to WAIT AND SEE if there is going to be an CHAOS later'.
When no CHAOS occurred, and the congestion charge's introduction was comparatively straightforward (and actually seemed to have the desired effect in that it reduced the number of people driving into London) they just dropped it and pretended they'd always known it would work.