Guardian: The government should abandon its much criticised road-pricing policy and invest its £1bn congestion charge fund in bus, tram and cycling projects instead, a report said today. The Centre for Cities thinktank is calling on the government to drop its insistence that any local authority bidding for the £1bn transport innovation fund (TIF) must attach a road-pricing scheme to its proposals. Local politicians have condemned the terms as tantamount to blackmail. The approach …