Current Affairs Sadiq Khan......London Mayor.....

[peteblue]

So having failed to deal with the ever increasing scourge of knives, deaths, stabbings, scooter bandits, he turns his attention to the one group that can’t evade justice, the motorist. He’s now extending the Ultra Low Emission Zone tax out to the north and south circulars at a cost of £12.50 a day for offending vehicles (petrol over 15 years old and diesel over 6 years old).......


So one Labour PM encourages everyone to buy diesels then a Labour Mayor slaps on a tax. It’s a doddle this Mayor business......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

https://www.independent.co.uk/envir...icles-health-bills-lung-disease-a8384806.html

It's not happening for kicks and giggles Pete.

 

[Tubey]

Anything that makes London a worse place for Londoners is fine by me.

Crap place anyway.

 

[jaycee]

Damn you lord mayor of London for not being a crime fighting super hero

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Anything that makes London a worse place for Londoners is fine by me.

Crap place anyway.

How dare he try and reduce the air pollution for the vast majority of people who travel by foot or cycle. I suspect this will make it better for most of us.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Diesels over 6yo is sobering, like - thought it was just ancient farm vehicles they would be banning, but a 6yo TDI barge is still a decent motor.

 

[Tubey]

How dare he try and reduce the air pollution for the vast majority of people who travel by foot or cycle. I suspect this will make it better for most of us.

Which is fine in theory but in practice is a tax on the poor e.g. those who can't afford new cars to avoid it. By doing it this way, the rich don't complain as they avoid it by upgrading every year or two and the poor don't have a voice anyway.

If it was really environmental and not politically influenced, why not apply it universally?

Not that I'm really arsed for the aforementioned reasons I gave. Screw London.

 

[abelard]

Paris means Paris... get used to it chaps.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Which is fine in theory but in practice is a tax on the poor e.g. those who can't afford new cars to avoid it. By doing it this way, the rich don't complain as they avoid it by upgrading every year or two and the poor don't have a voice anyway.

If it was really environmental and not politically influenced, why not apply it universally?

Not that I'm really arsed for the aforementioned reasons I gave. Screw London.

It's really not a tax on the poor as the chances are the poor won't own a car in London anyway. The poor owning a car is a luxury the rest of the country might be familiar with, but here most will be on public transport.

https://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/downloadables/car ownership rates by local authority - december 2012.pdf

See all those London boroughs cluttering up the bottom of the league table? In my borough, just 41% of households own a car. The congestion typically isn't caused by domestic traffic as commercial traffic, which is what this law will be aimed at I suspect.

 

[tsubaki]

This is a fantastic idea and I hope it is expanded to regularly ban cars, taxis, trucks and vans from the roads (at least in Central London).

On the one day a year in which they already do this (for the Sky bike race) the difference is massive, in that you can't taste the air and there isn't a load of people who can't drive busily driving about.

 

[peteblue]

Diesels over 6yo is sobering, like - thought it was just ancient farm vehicles they would be banning, but a 6yo TDI barge is still a decent motor.

Indeed, a 15 year old petrol car is pretty well finished anyway, but a 6 year old diesel is barely run in.......

 

[peteblue]

How dare he try and reduce the air pollution for the vast majority of people who travel by foot or cycle. I suspect this will make it better for most of us.

While doing sod all about moped crime, drugs, knifings, murders, etc, but at least he can claim the moral green ground while making more millions from the motorist. I haven’t driven in London for over 30 years and I have absolutely no intention of ever doing so in the future, but this seems to me to be diversion politics. But worse, it will probably hit the very people who voted him in, while letting the richer folk get around it.........

 

[ToffeeTim]

Good to see he's got his finger on the pulse of all the real issues London is facing at the minute.

 

[peteblue]

Good to see he's got his finger on the pulse of all the real issues London is facing at the minute.

He is a typical modern smarmy soundbite politician, with no experience, but believes he knows best.......

 

[peteblue]

How dare he try and reduce the air pollution for the vast majority of people who travel by foot or cycle. I suspect this will make it better for most of us.

You do realise Bruce that all these cycling bods are creating an environmental catastrophe by utilising and wearing out rubber tyres as well as the many plastics used upon the bike and helmet. The rubber particles from the tyres, being released into the air as the bike is being ridden, will cause a great many deaths. Or, this could be the same bs promulgated by the anti car lobby.........