Get paid for leaving the car.

[Globalti]

It won't work because it still requires an element of trust. That may be fine with the first 100 people who are committed to the idea but as the scheme expands others will just view it as a scam for making a few thousand quid. Trust vanished in this country many years ago but some of our civic and financial systems still depend on trust to a certain extent and as scammers find ways of exploiting the loopholes we are having to tighten rules and procedures.

Thirty years ago the city government of Jakarta introduced a new rule that cars with fewer than three occupants couldn't drive into the city so unemployed people queued outside the city limits and drivers picked them up, gave them some cash, dropped them in town where they hung around all day then picked up one or two for the drive home. Lagos State introduced an odd/even number plate scheme so everybody just went out and bought a second car, worsening the problem. You can be sure that in Britain some lowlife would find a way of monetizing that Coventry scheme.

 

[Moodyman]

Was it identified on one of the London arterial routes, where some rich folk bought a black cab and used it for commuting in the bus/taxi lane?

 

[Moodyman]

As above, if there is a way to make money, some people will.

Take the green grants: free boilers, insulation, etc or the Help to Buy schemes which attracted buy to let landlords.

 

[Banjo]

They could achieve the same without the need for bribes. Simply take the licenses and cars off drink drivers and phone drivers permanently.