Expanded ULEZ

[motorbiking]

Starmer tries to reign in the vote loser khan. But is it more b@llox to stop the backlash? Looking for an alternative solution, is easy. It wasn't needed to start with. Surely a bright Lawyer like Starmer can work that out?

‘Ongoing discussions’ with Mayor about Ulez alternatives, says Keir Starmer

Labour leader said his party had ‘an obligation to look at other options’

www.standard.co.uk

 

[JohnD]

Diesels are on the way out. By the time the manufactured outrage has died down nobody will care.

 

[motorbiking]

Somebody is paying the £300M in poor tax.

 

[noseall]

Somebody is paying the £300M in poor tax.

Scumbag tax-dodger Bernie.

 

[Mottie]

£15 for a day travelcard is utterly outrageous.

If you were travelling from my local station, it'd cost you an extra £11 a day to park your car.

 

[motorbiking]

I used to commute by motorbike, free parking, 40 mins each way vs 1:30 via train and tube. Too close for fast trains, too far out for slow trains to be convenient. It would make sense if e-scooters were legal as this would massively reduce traffic in central London.

 

[motorbiking]

People with older cars didn’t really have to worry about depreciation until Ulez expanded.

 

[JohnD]

People with older cars didn’t really have to worry about depreciation until Ulez expanded.

If only they could have known that diesel cars were falling out of favour.

Maybe 15 years ago they could have had an inkling.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

People with older cars didn’t really have to worry about depreciation until Ulez expanded.

They would just buy another when it was no longer financially viable to keep it ?

 

[securespark]

If only they could have known that diesel cars were falling out of favour.

Maybe 15 years ago they could have had an inkling.

I think the principle of Rudolf's invention was a brilliant one.

We were all encouraged to buy them in the late 90s.

It's a crying shame they have become reviled, just when manufacturers have cracked the emissions with the latest Euro version.

 

[noseall]

People with older cars didn’t really have to worry about depreciation until Ulez expanded.

People? You mean those that live in polluted London.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

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[motorbiking]

People? You mean those that live in polluted London.

So polluted...

 

[motorbiking]

So far the expanded ULEZ has been a huge success for Khan. Despite the damages and additional security costs, running a bill of around £50M gross almost £300M a year from fines in the expanded ULEZ, which now makes up 85% of ULEZ revenue and since there was never an air quality problem in outer London to start with, its easy to claim the air has now been cleaned up. Businesses are complaining, but they will soon go bust and nobody will care.

https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-10-31/khan-hails-report-into-ulez-expansion-despite-thousands-facing-daily-fines

Meanwhile Sadiq Khan is more popular then ever

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s effigy takes centre stage at Kent town’s bonfire night

The public in Edenbridge voted for Mr Khan because of the unpopularity of extending the Ulez scheme

www.independent.co.uk

 

[StephenStephen]

Here's some information...

London's Low Emission Zones improve air quality, health, and people's well-being, says new analysis

The introduction of London's Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in 2008 and subsequent Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) from 2019 has significantly improved air quality, benefiting Londoners' physical and mental health, according to new analysis from the Department of Economics at the University of Bath.

medicalxpress.com

Origin: https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...-and-peoples-well-being-new-ipr-policy-brief/